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- pronunciation:
- Im
pl
keIt
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
implicates, implicating, implicated |
| definition: |
to involve or prove involvement of (someone or something) in an affair, situation, event, or series of events.
She feared that her husband was somehow implicated in the murder.The studies implicated mercury as a cause of the brain damage.
- synonyms:
- incriminate, involve
- antonyms:
- clear
- similar words:
- connect, criminate, impute, inculpate
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| related words: |
accuse, charge, entangle |
adverb + (v.)implicate
automatically, clearly, deeply, directly, equally, falsely, frequently, heavily, inextricably, intimately, mutually, necessarily, personally, profoundly, somehow, strongly
(v.)implicate
+ adverb
hence
(v.)implicate
+ noun
affair,
allegation,
amendment,
assassination,
bombing,
break-in,
bribery,
cancer,
cause,
clause,
commander,
consciousness,
conspiracy,
corruption,
coup,
crime,
deficiency,
disease,
doping,
etiology,
fate,
formation,
fraud,
functioning,
hormone,
incident,
investigation,
kidnapping,
killing,
making,
morality,
motive,
murder,
mutation,
outbreak,
pathogen,
pathogenesis,
plot,
politician,
scandal,
scheme,
shooting,
slaying,
spread,
stress,
suspect,
terror,
terrorist,
viewer,
wrongdoing
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The word implicate
contains the following parts:
im-1
Latin
prefix
that means in, into, on
  More about this word part:
The prefix im-1 occurs in Latin loanwords. It is an assimilated form of in-1 used before roots beginning with m, p, and b, such as "mers," "port," and "bib."
Example words:
imbibe, imbue, immerse, immigrate, impel, implicate, imply, import, important, impose, imposing
plic, plex, ply
Latin
root
that means fold, plait
Example words:
accomplice, applicant, apply, complex, complicate, display, duplex, duplicate, explicable, explicate, implicate, implication, imply, inexplicable, multiplication, multiply1, perplex
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, abnegate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, adjudicate, administrate, administrative, administrator, advocate, aerate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggravate, agitate, alienate, allocate, alternate, animate, annihilate, annotate, arrogate, aspirate, assimilate, associate, calibrate, capitulate, cerebrate, circulate, collaborate, collocate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, consummate, cooperate, coordinate, decapitate, decelerate, decerebrate, decimate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, derogate, desecrate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, dissimulate, dissociate, divagate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, elongate, elucidate, emasculate, emigrate, enervate, enunciate, equate, equivocate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, exfoliate, expurgate, fluctuate, formulate, generate, gradate, graduate, gyrate, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, incorporate, indoctrinate, innovate, interpellate, interrogate, irradiate, irrigate, legislate, liberate, locate, mediate, motivate, narrate, navigate, negate, nominate, obliterate, operate, orate, originate, ovulate, palpate, participate, placate, populate, prognosticate, proliferate, radiate, regulate, resonate, rotate, segregate, simulate, subjugate, terminate, vacate, validate, contraindicate
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