implicate
verb /ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/
/ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they implicate | /ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/ /ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/ |
| he / she / it implicates | /ˈɪmplɪkeɪts/ /ˈɪmplɪkeɪts/ |
| past simple implicated | /ˈɪmplɪkeɪtɪd/ /ˈɪmplɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle implicated | /ˈɪmplɪkeɪtɪd/ /ˈɪmplɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form implicating | /ˈɪmplɪkeɪtɪŋ/ /ˈɪmplɪkeɪtɪŋ/ |
- implicate somebody (in something) to show or suggest that somebody is involved in something bad or criminal
- He tried to avoid saying anything that would implicate him further.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deeply
- heavily
- strongly
- …
- implicate something (in/as something) to show or suggest that something is the cause of something bad
- The results implicate poor hygiene as one cause of the outbreak.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deeply
- heavily
- strongly
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin implicatus ‘folded in’, past participle of implicare, from in- ‘in’ + plicare ‘to fold’. The original sense was ‘entwine’; compare with employ and imply. The earliest modern sense (‘to convey something indirectly’), dates from the early 17th cent.
Idioms
be implicated in something
- to be involved in a crime; to be responsible for something bad
- Senior officials were implicated in the scandal.
- These groups are very strongly implicated in the violence.