Word Meanings - IMPLICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
pref. im- in + plicare to fold. See Employ, Ply, and cf. Imply, 1. To infold; to fold together; to interweave. The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley. 2. To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in
Additional info about word: IMPLICATE
pref. im- in + plicare to fold. See Employ, Ply, and cf. Imply, 1. To infold; to fold together; to interweave. The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley. 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPLICATE)
- Compromise Arbitrate
- adjust
- compose
- settle
- endanger
- implicate
- involve
- Criminate
- Charge
- accuse
- impeach
- arraign
- Embroil
- Implicate
- commingle
- disturb
- distract
- trouble
- Entangle
- Knot
- mat
- entrap
- ensnare
- ravel
- perplex
- embarrass
- inveigle
- compromise
- Involve
- confound
- mingle
- envelop
- include
- complicate
- entangle
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPLICATE)
- Aggravate
- excite
- foster
- perpetuate
- exempt
- enfranchise
- disengage
- extricate
- exonerate
- Compose
- calm
- allay
- appease
- please
- soothe
- delight
- gratify
- recreate
- entertain
- relieve
- refresh
Related words: (words related to IMPLICATE)
- DELIGHTING
Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - TROUBLER
One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller. - RAVELIN
A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon. - CHARGEANT
Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer. - CHARGE
1. A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. 2. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust. Note: The people of a parish or church are called the charge of the clergyman who is set over them. - INVOLVEDNESS
The state of being involved. - DELIGHTLESS
Void of delight. Thomson. - ENTRAP
To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of - ACCUSE
Accusation. Shak. - ADJUSTIVE
Tending to adjust. - DISTRACTION
1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in - DISTRACTED
Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope. - CHARGEABLE
1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving - SETTLEMENT
A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles, - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - RAVEL
1. To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy. 2. To fall into perplexity and confusion. Till, by their own perplexities involved, They ravel more, still less resolved. Milton. 3. To make investigation - PERPLEX
1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - PLEASER
One who pleases or gratifies. - COMPROMISE
promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both - DISEMBROIL
To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison. - UNPERPLEX
To free from perplexity. Donne. - TRAVEL
1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; - MISCHARGE
To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n. - OVERTROUBLED
Excessively troubled. - ENCHARGE
To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey. - PERPETUATE
To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize. Addison. Burke. - BEMINGLE
To mingle; to mix. - REACCUSE
To accuse again. Cheyne. - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.