implicate

Synonyms

connect associate charge criminate involve entangle infold compromise

Antonyms

disconnect dissociate acquit extricate

Im"pli*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Implicating.] Etym: [L. implicatus, p. p. of implicare to involve; pref. im- in + plicare to fold. See Employ, Ply, and cf. Imply, Implicit.] 1. To infold; to fold together; to interweave. The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley. 2. 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.

implicate - Similar Words

unimplicate implicative biplicate plicate implate uniplicate triplicate complicate silicate policate