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implicate

verb
🔊/ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/
🔊/ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they implicate
🔊/ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/
🔊/ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/
he / she / it implicates
🔊/ˈɪmplɪkeɪts/
🔊/ˈɪmplɪkeɪts/
past simple implicated
🔊/ˈɪmplɪkeɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈɪmplɪkeɪtɪd/
past participle implicated
🔊/ˈɪmplɪkeɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈɪmplɪkeɪtɪd/
-ing form implicating
🔊/ˈɪmplɪkeɪtɪŋ/
🔊/ˈɪmplɪkeɪtɪŋ/
Idioms
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  1. implicate somebody (in something) to show or suggest that somebody is involved in something bad or criminal牵涉，涉及（某人）
    • He tried to avoid saying anything that would implicate him further.他尽力避免说出任何会进一步牵连他的事情。🔊🔊
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • deeply
    • heavily
    • strongly
    • …
    See full entry
  2. implicate something (in/as something) to show or suggest that something is the cause of something bad表明（或意指）…是起因
    • The results implicate poor hygiene as one cause of the outbreak.这些结果说明卫生条件差是疾病爆发的一个原因。🔊🔊
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • deeply
    • heavily
    • strongly
    • …
    See full entry
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin implicatus ‘folded in’, past participle of implicare, from in- ‘in’ + plicare ‘to fold’. The original sense was ‘entwine’; compare with employ and imply. The earliest modern sense (‘to convey something indirectly’), dates from the early 17th cent.
Idioms
be implicated in something
  1. to be involved in a crime; to be responsible for something bad与某罪行有牵连；对某坏事有责任
    • Senior officials were implicated in the scandal.一些高级官员受到这一丑闻的牵连。🔊🔊
    • These groups are very strongly implicated in the violence.这些团体与这起暴力事件有很大关联。