MEANING
To show or suggest that someone or something is involved, especially in wrongdoing or a causal process.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- implicate a suspect
- implicate a mechanism
On the page
The results implicate a second mechanism in the response.
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Word forms
- Base
- implicate
- Past tense
- implicated
- Past participle
- implicated
- Present participle
- implicating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- implicate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are implicating
- Present perfect
- have/has implicated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been implicating
- Past
- implicated
- Past continuous
- was/were implicating
- Past perfect
- had implicated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been implicating
- Future
- will implicate
- Future continuous
- will be implicating
- Future perfect
- will have implicated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been implicating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: implicate; implicates; implicated; implicated; implicating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, qualification. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: implicates.
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