implicating

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implicating - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Implicate \Im"pli*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implicated; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Implicating.] [L. implicatus, p. p. of
     implicare to involve; pref. im- in + plicare to fold. See
     Employ, Ply, and cf. Imply, Implicit.]
     1. To infold; to fold together; to interweave.
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              The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. --Shelley.
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     2. To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; --
        applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the
        evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be
        implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a
        fault, etc.
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  implicating \implicating\ n.
     a charge that implicates someone (usually of wrongdoing).
  
     Syn: implication.
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