To implicate someone means to show or claim that they were involved in something wrong or criminal. He was obliged to resign when one of his own aides was implicated in a financial scandal He didn't find anything in the notebooks to implicate Stu. see also implicated + implication im·pli·ca·tion his implication in a murder
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
bring into intimate and incriminating connection; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government"
impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result; "What does this move entail?"
bring into intimate and incriminating connection; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government