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implicate | unimplicated |

As a verb implicate

is to connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.

As an adjective unimplicated is

not implicated.

implicate

English

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.
  • See also

    * ear * inform * squealer * supergrass ----

    unimplicated

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not implicated.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 25, author=Dave Kehr, title=New DVDs, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Detached from the more faintly registered backgrounds, unimplicated in the receding perspectives of Pabst’s compositions, these are simply actors standing in front of a set. }}