v.
  
/
ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/
  
- show to be involved in a crime. 
▸
(be implicated in)
 bear some of the responsibility for (an action or process).
 - convey (a meaning) indirectly; imply.
 
n.
  
/
ˈɪmplɪkət/
 
Logic  a thing implied.
 
  Derivative
  
    - implicative
  
/ɪmˈplɪkətɪv/
 adj.  - implicatively adv.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME (orig. in the sense ‘entwine’; cf. employ and imply): from L. implicatus ‘folded in’, past part. of implicare (see imply).