implicated Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb bring into intimate and incriminating connection
    implicate.
    • He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government
  2. verb impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
    implicate; entail.
    • What does this move entail?
  3. adjective satellite culpably involved
    concerned.
    • all those concerned in the bribery case have been identified
    • named three officials implicated in the plot
    • an innocent person implicated by circumstances in a crime

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