Verb

(implicat)

To connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A punch in the gut , passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}

To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.

(archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.

Verb

To engulf, surge over and submerge.

The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.

To overpower, crush.

In December 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland with overwhelming force.

* Bible, Psalms lxxviii. 53

The sea overwhelmed their enemies.

To overpower emotionally.

He was overwhelmed with guilt.

Joy overwhelmed her when she realized that she had won a million dollars.

To cause to surround, to cover.

(Papin)