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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
implicate
▶verb /ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/ 
  • 1 show to be involved in a crime.

    ■ (be implicated in) bear some of the responsibility for (an action or process).

  • 2 convey (a meaning) indirectly; imply.
▶noun /ˈɪmplɪkət/ Logic a thing implied.
– derivatives
implicative /ɪmˈplɪkətɪv/ adjective,
implicatively adverb.
– origin ME (orig. in the sense ‘entwine’; cf. employ and imply): from L. implicatus ‘folded in’, past part. of implicare (see imply).



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