implicated

implicated
    adj 1: culpably involved; "all those concerned in the bribery
           case have been identified"; "named three officials
           implicated in the plot"; "an innocent person implicated
           by circumstances in a crime" [syn: {implicated},
           {concerned}]
    

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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implicated \implicated\ adj.
   culpably involved; connected; -- of persons with respect to
   responsibility for events.
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120 Moby Thesaurus words for "implicated":
      Byzantine, a party to, accessory, accused, affected, affiliate,
      affiliated, allied, arraignable, arraigned, associate, associated,
      assumed, at fault, balled up, blamed, bound, bracketed, censurable,
      charged, cited, collateral, complex, complicated, concerned,
      confounded, confused, conjugate, connected, convoluted, correlated,
      coupled, crabbed, criminal, culpable, daedal, denounced, devious,
      elaborate, embrangled, engaged, entangled, faulty, fouled up,
      guilty, hinted, impeachable, impeached, implied, impugned,
      in complicity, included, incriminated, inculpated, indicated,
      indictable, indicted, inferred, interested, interlinked,
      interlocked, interrelated, intimated, intricate, involuted,
      involved, joined, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, linked,
      loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meant,
      messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, of that ilk,
      of that kind, parallel, partaking, participant, participating,
      participative, participatory, peccant, perplexed, presumed,
      presupposed, ramified, related, reprehensible, reproachable,
      reproached, reprovable, roundabout, screwed up, sharing, snarled,
      spliced, subtle, suggested, supposed, tangled, tangly, tasked,
      taxed, tied, to blame, twinned, twisted, under attack, under fire,
      wed, wedded, yoked