implicate
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Synonyms: simplicate, explicate, implicit, ampliate, duplicate, replicate, imprecate, imbricate, complicate, implicative, implicated
Antonyms: simplicate, explicate, implicit, ampliate, duplicate, replicate, imprecate, imbricate, complicate, implicative, implicated
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Verb
- To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.
- The evidence implicates involvement of top management in the scheme.
- To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
- What did Nixon's visit to China implicate for Russia?
- To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
- To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.
Noun
- The thing implied.
Adjective
- Intertwined, enfolded, twisted together; wrapped up (with), entangled, involved (in). used in implicate order
- used in implicate order
- Involved, intricate.
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