implicate
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- v bring into intimate and incriminating connection
He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government - v impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
- McDougal, Christopher Wade, Robert Palmer and Clinton's former gubernatorial aide Stephen Smith were all convicted on minor charges as Starr pushed them to implicate their former .
- Investigative journalists were encouraged to lay bare local abuses, even if they might implicate members of the Communist Party.
- The French newspaper Le Figaro reports that evidence quickly emerged that the witness had been paid to implicate Syria in the affair, and his testimony was discredited.