/im"pli kayt'/ , v.t., implicated, implicating .
1. to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
2. to imply as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood.
3. to connect or relate to intimately; affect as a consequence: The malfunctioning of one part of the nervous system implicates another part.
4. Archaic. to fold or twist together; intertwine; interlace.
[ 1530-40; implicatus ptp. of implicare to interweave, equiv. to im- IM- 1 + plica ( re ) to PLY 2 + -atus -ATE 1 ]
Syn. 1. See involve .