SAT vocabulary
Implicate
To show (someone) to be involved in a crime or wrongdoing; or to imply something as a necessary consequence.
Example
"The detective found evidence that seemed to implicate the suspect in the robbery."
Etymology
From Latin 'implicare', meaning 'to involve, entangle'.
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