implicate
- IPA[ˈimpləˌkāt]
美式
- show (someone) to be involved in a crime；bear some of the responsibility for (an action or process, especially a criminal or harmful one)
- a thing implied.
verb: implicate, 3rd person present: implicates, gerund or present participle: implicating, past tense: implicated, past participle: implicated
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. show (someone) to be involved in a crime police claims implicated him in many more killings 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ bear some of the responsibility for (an action or process, especially a criminal or harmful one) the team believes he is heavily implicated in the bombing a chemical implicated in ozone depletion 同義詞
- ▪ US involve (something) in a necessary way cable franchise activities plainly implicate First Amendment interests
- 2. convey (a meaning or intention) indirectly through what one says, rather than stating it explicitly; imply by saying that coffee would keep her awake, Mary implicated that she didn't want any 同義詞
名詞
- 1. a thing implied.
- 更多解釋
- show (someone) to be involved in a crime: he was implicated in a price-fixing scandal
- a thing implied.
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