imply
verb/ĩpliˈkaɾ/high
im·pli·car
Definitions
1To have as a necessary consequence or to involve necessarily.
The decision may imply additional costs for the project.
Accepting the job implies moving to another city.
Common collocations
imply costsimply risksimply changesimply responsibility
2To involve someone or something in a situation, especially in a negative or problematic way.
The evidence found implicates the suspect in the crime.
I don't want to implicate you in my problems.
Common collocations
implicate someoneimplicate oneself in a matterbe implicated
Etymology
Do latim 'implicare' (enrolar, envolver).