implicate

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

im·pli·cate AW [implicate implicates implicated implicating] BrE [ˈɪmplɪkeɪt] NAmE [ˈɪmplɪkeɪt] verb
1. ~ sb (in sth) to show or suggest that sb is involved in sth bad or criminal
Syn: ↑incriminate
•He tried to avoid saying anything that would implicate him further.
2. ~ sth (in/as sth) to show or suggest that sth is the cause of sth bad
•The results implicate poor hygiene as one cause of the outbreak.
Idiom: ↑implicated in something
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Word Origin:
late 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.

Example Bank:
•These groups are very strongly implicated in the violence.