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implicare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • connote verb To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
  • entail verb To involve or require something as a necessary consequence.
  • implicate verb To show that someone is involved in something wrong or criminal.
  • imply verb To suggest something indirectly without stating it outright.
  • incur verb To bring a cost, penalty, or consequence upon oneself.
  • infer verb To work out or conclude something based on evidence or reasoning, rather than being told directly.

Senses

implicare is used for these senses in English:

  • connote (intransitive) To express without overt reference; to imply.
  • entail (transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
  • imply (transitive, of a proposition) To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
  • incur (transitive) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.

connote — full definition

  1. verb To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
  2. verb To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
  3. verb To express without overt reference; to imply.
  4. verb To require as a logical predicate to consequence.

entail — full definition

  1. verb To involve or require something as a necessary consequence.
  2. noun (law) An estate whose inheritance is restricted to a specific line of heirs.

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