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implicated

[ im-pli-key-tid ]

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adjective

shown to be also involved, especially in an incriminating manner:
In the wake of last year’s doping scandal, the Cycling Federation states that this year’s team will have no connection to any of the implicated team members, either directly or indirectly.
implied as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood:
My defensive post was answering an implicated accusation that clearly overstepped the boundaries of an opinion.
intimately connected or related, or affected as a result:
The paper delves into the historical background of our modern understanding of time, as well as the implicated problem of infinity.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of implicate ( def ).

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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of implicated¹

implicate ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

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However, following their visit, the idol went missing, and Banerjee was implicated in its theft.

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“USS Callister: Into Infinity” makes no such remarks on power; the sharpest comment Brooker offers us is that, when implicated in wrongdoing, men are willing to do unconscionable things to shield themselves from accountability.

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For weeks, she has wondered about the threat, concerned that residents could be implicated.

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To increase the amount of funding available the Public Accounts Committee called for the manufacturers of materials implicated in the Grenfell Tower Fire to also face a levy.

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Before he pleaded no contest, he claimed that prosecutors told him he could get a far lesser sentence — much like Austin’s — if he implicated his ex-lover.

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