different between disturb vs implicate

English

Etymology

From Middle English destourben, from Anglo-Norman distourber and Old French destorber, from Latin disturbare, intensifying for turbare (“to throw into disorder”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?t??b/
• Rhymes: -??(r)b

Verb

disturb (third-person singular simple present disturbs, present participle disturbing, simple past and past participle disturbed)

1. (transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.

2. (transitive) to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.
3. (intransitive) to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.

Derived terms

• disturbance

Translations

Noun

disturb

1. (obsolete) disturbance

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin implicatus < implico (“entangle, involve”), from plico (“fold”). Doublet of imply and employ.

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /??mpl?ke?t/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /??mpl?k?t/

Verb

implicate (third-person singular simple present implicates, present participle implicating, simple past and past participle implicated)

1. (transitive, with “in”) To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.

2. To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.

3. (pragmatics) To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
4. (archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.

Related terms

• implication
• implicative
• implicature
• implicit
• implicitness
• imply

Translations

Noun

implicate (plural implicates)

1. (philosophy) The thing implied.

See also

• (connect with a crime): grass, inform, squeal

Italian

Verb

implicate

1. second-person plural present of implicare
2. second-person plural imperative of implicare
3. feminine plural past participle of implicare

Latin

Participle

implic?te

1. vocative masculine singular of implic?tus