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IMPLICATED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of implicate 2. to show that someone is involved in a crime or…. Learn more.
His business partner was implicated in the theft. the implicated vines did form a most restful garden bower
The presence of reindeer is implicated in some of these trends; all of them are important for the ways in which reindeer husbandry is practised. From the Cambridge English Corpus The physical machinery of the human voice is obviously and closely implicated in its pure sound.
If someone or something is implicated in a crime or a bad situation, they are involved in it or responsible for it. The President was implicated in the cover-up and forced to resign. [ + in] It is thought that this virus is implicated in the development of a number of illnesses.
That would have had to have happened despite the checks that are already in place and which caught the people implicated above, mind you. From Washington Post Under police pressure, four of the boys admitted to roles in the crime and implicated others.
He was to resign when one of his own aides was implicated in a financial scandal. [be VERB -ed] He didn't find anything in the notebooks to implicate Stuart. [VERB noun] Synonyms: incriminate, involve, compromise, embroil More Synonyms of implicate. implication (ɪmplɪkeɪʃən ) uncountable noun.
Someone who is implicated in something is shown to be somehow involved in it. The word is often used in a negative sense, suggesting an involvement in something wrong, with the person being implicated by the facts of the case.
Implicated definition: shown to be also involved, especially in an incriminating manner. See examples of IMPLICATED used in a sentence.
The verb implicate means "to connect or involve in something." For example, your cousins might implicate you in the planning of a big party for your grandparents. Implicate comes from the Latin word implicare, meaning "to entwine, involve."
to be involved in a crime; to be responsible for something bad Senior officials were implicated in the scandal. See implicate in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
