implicating
Showing someone's involvement
Implicating is showing someone's involvement in something, usually wrongdoing: Evidence implicating the senator emerged during the investigation.
The word suggests indirect proof rather than direct accusation—documents, connections, or circumstances that point toward guilt.
Beyond criminal contexts, implicating can mean involving as a contributing factor: Studies implicating diet in heart disease.
Show involvement in wrongdoing
- indictFormally charge with crime
- chargeCost or accusation
- allegationAssertion lacking proof
- blameAssign responsibility for wrongdoing
testimony · evidence · witness · prosecution · defendant · guilt · complicity · culpability
Indicate without stating
- insinuateSuggest without directly stating
- hintIndirect suggestion
- intimateClosely personal or private
- alludeRefer indirectly
indicate · signify · inference · insinuation · innuendo · subtext · connotation · overtone
Secondary consequence of action
- repercussionIndirect result of action
- outcomeFinal result of events
- effectResult of a cause
- resultWhat follows a cause
impact · fallout · aftermath · chain reaction · corollary · ripple effect · significance · bearing
incriminate
Show involvement in wrongdoing
- indictFormally charge with crime
- chargeCost or accusation
- allegationAssertion lacking proof
blame · testimony · evidence · witness · prosecution · defendant · guilt · complicity · culpability · accomplice
imply
Indicate without stating
allude · indicate · signify · inference · insinuation · innuendo · subtext · connotation · overtone · undertone
ramification
Secondary consequence of action
- repercussionIndirect result of action
- outcomeFinal result of events
- effectResult of a cause
result · impact · fallout · aftermath · chain reaction · corollary · ripple effect · significance · bearing · relevance
enmesh
Catch in interwoven strands
ensnare · draw in · catch up · intertwine · web · mire · compromise · associate · connect · link
- reproachesblaming, scolding, rebuking, reprimanding, censuring
- assigningassigning, allocating, appointing, attributing, crediting
implicatingexonerating
Clearing of wrongdoing
clearing · absolving · vindicating · exculpating · acquitting
implicatingdissociating
Mentally separating from awareness
excluding · ruling out · disconnecting · separating · distancing
- legal implicationsPotential outcomes affecting rights
- tax implicationsFinancial effects of transactions
- moral implicationsRight-wrong considerations of actions
- economic implicationsMonetary effects of actions
- ethical implicationsMoral significance of choices
- health implicationsEffects on bodily welfare