Suggesting or showing that someone or something is involved in or responsible for something, usually something wrong or illegal.
From Latin 'implicare' meaning 'to enfold' or 'to involve,' from 'in-' (in) and 'plicare' (to fold)—the image is of folding someone into guilt like folding cloth.
The Latin root 'plicare' (to fold) lives on in dozens of English words—duplicate, complicate, triplicate—all describing things that fold or layer together, which is why implicating feels like entangling someone in layers of evidence.
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