implicate
[im-pli-keyt]
verb (used with object), implicated, implicating.
- to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
- to imply as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood.
- to connect or relate to intimately; affect as a consequence: The malfunctioning of one part of the nervous system implicates another part.
- Archaic. to fold or twist together; intertwine; interlace.
