implicate

–verb (used with object), -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing.
1. to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
2. to imply as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood.
3. to connect or relate to intimately; affect as a consequence: The malfunctioning of one part of the nervous system implicates another part.
4. Archaic. to fold or twist together; intertwine; interlace.