implicate Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb bring into intimate and incriminating connection
- He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government
verb impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
entail.
- What does this move entail?

L. implicatus, p. p. of implicare to involve; pref. im- in + plicare to fold. See Employ, Ply, and cf. Imply, Implicit.

imperfect & past participle Implicated ; present participle & verbal noun Implicating

To infold; to fold together; to interweave.
The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley.
To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc.