(with “in”) To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.
The evidence implicates involvement of top management in the scheme.
To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
What did Nixon's visit to China implicate for Russia?
To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.