"imply" meaning in English

See imply in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ɪmˈplaɪ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-imply.ogg Forms: implies [present, singular, third-person], implying [participle, present], implied [participle, past], implied [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], imply [infinitive]
Rhymes: -aɪ Etymology: From Middle English implien, emplien, borrowed from Old French emplier, from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). Doublet of employ and implicate. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|implien}} Middle English implien, {{der|en|fro|emplier}} Old French emplier, {{der|en|la|implico|implicare|to infold, involve}} Latin implicare (“to infold, involve”), {{doublet|en|employ|implicate}} Doublet of employ and implicate Head templates: {{en-verb}} imply (third-person singular simple present implies, present participle implying, simple past and past participle implied) Inflection templates: {{en-conj|old=1|past=implied|pres_2sg_old=impliest|pres_3sg=implies|pres_3sg_old=implieth}}
  1. (transitive, of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Communication Synonyms (to have as a necessary consequence): entail, implicate Translations (to have as a consequence): означавам (označavam) (Bulgarian), implicar (Catalan), comportar (Catalan), 意味着 (yìwèizhe) (Chinese Mandarin), implikovat (Czech), implicere (Danish), impliceren (Dutch), inhouden (Dutch), merkitä (Finnish), seurata (Finnish), impliquer (French), implizieren (German), zur Folge haben (German), maga után von (Hungarian), magában foglal (Hungarian), implikál (Hungarian), következtetni enged (Hungarian), implikar (Ido), implicare (Italian), medføre (Norwegian Bokmål), innebære (Norwegian Bokmål), implisere (Norwegian Bokmål), medføre (Norwegian Nynorsk), innebere (Norwegian Nynorsk), implisere (Norwegian Nynorsk), pociągać (za sobą) (Polish), implicar (Portuguese), ter como consequência (Portuguese), acarretar (Portuguese), предполага́ть (predpolagátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), implicar (Spanish), acarrear (Spanish), conllevar (Spanish), implicera (Swedish), gerektirmek (Turkish), işaret etmek (Turkish), припускати (prypuskaty) (Ukrainian), bao hàm (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-imply-en-verb-GkWrGdEB Disambiguation of Communication: 27 40 33 0 Categories (other): English terms with collocations Disambiguation of 'to have as a necessary consequence': 94 2 3 1 Disambiguation of 'to have as a consequence': 85 4 7 4
  2. (transitive, of a person) to suggest by logical inference Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Communication Translations (to suggest by a logical inference): подразбирам (podrazbiram) (Bulgarian), implicar (Catalan), suggereren (Dutch), tarkoittaa (Finnish), väittää (Finnish), impliquer (French), implizieren (German), implikar (Ido), implisere (Norwegian), подразумева́ть (podrazumevátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), implicar (Spanish), kastetmek (Turkish), мати на увазі (maty na uvazi) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-imply-en-verb-L7rq1W9r Disambiguation of Communication: 27 40 33 0 Disambiguation of 'to suggest by a logical inference': 2 66 30 1
  3. (transitive, of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Communication Synonyms (to suggest tacitly): allude, hint, insinuate, suggest, infer [proscribed] Translations (to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement): اِنْطَوَى (inṭawā) (Arabic), намякаць (namjakacʹ) [imperfective] (Belarusian), намякну́ць (namjaknúcʹ) [perfective] (Belarusian), загатвам (zagatvam) (Bulgarian), намеквам (namekvam) (Bulgarian), insinuar (Catalan), 暗示 (ànshì) (Chinese Mandarin), 暗指 (ànzhǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), naznačit (Czech), impliceren (Dutch), vihjailla (Finnish), antaa ymmärtää (Finnish), vihjata (Finnish), insinuer (French), sous-entendre (French), bedeuten (German), implizieren (German), υπονοώ (yponoó) (Greek), sugall (Hungarian), utal (Hungarian), céloz (Hungarian), sejtet (Hungarian), akar(ja) mondani (Hungarian), gefa í skyn (Icelandic), benda til (Icelandic), implikar (Ido), ほのめかす (honomekasu) (Japanese), insinuere (Norwegian), antyde (Norwegian Bokmål), به طور ضمنی اشاره کردن (Persian), sugerować (Polish), dar a entender (Portuguese), insinuar (Portuguese), намека́ть (namekátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), намекну́ть (nameknútʹ) [perfective] (Russian), ciallaich (Scottish Gaelic), seaghaich (Scottish Gaelic), insinuar (Spanish), dar a entender (Spanish), antyda (Swedish), insinuera (Swedish), ima etmek (Turkish), manasına getirmek (Turkish), натякати (natjakaty) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-imply-en-verb-4zFloNh0 Disambiguation of Communication: 27 40 33 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 16 52 6 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 15 13 61 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 15 63 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 10 70 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 18 17 57 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Belarusian translations: 17 18 57 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 16 17 59 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 16 17 59 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 22 18 53 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 11 11 73 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 17 15 55 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 17 18 57 8 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 16 14 57 12 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 17 14 61 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 15 22 54 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 14 25 56 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 17 18 57 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 14 10 67 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 15 12 64 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 15 12 64 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 19 17 57 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 18 19 54 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 9 6 81 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 17 18 57 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 19 18 56 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 25 18 46 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 31 15 48 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 14 11 66 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 17 18 56 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 13 11 67 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 17 17 58 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 17 17 58 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 17 18 57 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 17 18 57 8 Disambiguation of 'to suggest tacitly': 3 28 67 2 Disambiguation of 'to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement': 7 5 82 6
  4. (archaic) to enfold, entangle. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-imply-en-verb-gk3N8WyG
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: implicate, implication, implicative, implicit, implicitness, connotation, entail

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2016, Grigoriy Blekherman, Daniel Plaumann, Rainer Sinn, Cynthia Vinzant, “Low-Rank Sum-of-Squares Representations on Varieties of Minimal Degree”, in arXiv:",
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          "lang": "German",
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          "word": "zur Folge haben"
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to have as a consequence",
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          "lang": "Italian",
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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          "roman": "podrazbiram",
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          "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
          "word": "suggereren"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
          "word": "tarkoittaa"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
          "word": "väittää"
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          "roman": "podrazumevátʹ",
          "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
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          "word": "подразумева́ть"
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          "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
          "word": "implicar"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
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          "_dis1": "2 66 30 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "maty na uvazi",
          "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
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      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "imply (third-person singular simple present implies, present participle implying, simple past and past participle implied)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "im‧ply"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "past": "implied",
        "pres_2sg_old": "impliest",
        "pres_3sg": "implies",
        "pres_3sg_old": "implieth"
      },
      "name": "en-conj"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "implicate"
    },
    {
      "word": "implication"
    },
    {
      "word": "implicative"
    },
    {
      "word": "implicit"
    },
    {
      "word": "implicitness"
    },
    {
      "word": "connotation"
    },
    {
      "word": "entail"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with collocations",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Correlation does not imply causation",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The proposition that \"all dogs are mammals\" implies that my dog is a mammal.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Grigoriy Blekherman, Daniel Plaumann, Rainer Sinn, Cynthia Vinzant, “Low-Rank Sum-of-Squares Representations on Varieties of Minimal Degree”, in arXiv:",
          "text": "Our upper bound is the best possible, and it implies the existence of low-rank factorizations of positive semidefinite bivariate matrix polynomials and representations of biforms as sums of few squares.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "necessary",
          "necessary"
        ],
        [
          "consequence",
          "consequence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a proposition"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to suggest by logical inference"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "suggest",
          "suggest"
        ],
        [
          "logical",
          "logical"
        ],
        [
          "inference",
          "inference"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, of a person) to suggest by logical inference"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "What do you mean \"we need to be more careful with hygiene\"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Margaret Helen Hobbs, Carla Rice, Gender and Women's Studies in Canada: Critical Terrain, →ISBN, page 13:",
          "text": "The wrongminded notion of the feminist movement which implied it was anti-male carried with it the wrongminded assumption that all female space would necessarily be an environment where patriarchy and sexist thinking would be absent.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Margaret Laurence, The Diviners:",
          "text": "Naturally, the river wasn't wrinkled or creased at all— wrong words, implying something unfluid like skin, something unenduring, prey to age.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 470:",
          "text": "Both French and English had once used parcel to refer to pieces of land that made up an estate, but when it evolved to imply an item of business in both, it retained its connotations of small fragmentariness in French, whereas in English it simply meant a package.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hint",
          "hint"
        ],
        [
          "insinuate",
          "insinuate"
        ],
        [
          "suggest",
          "suggest"
        ],
        [
          "tacit",
          "tacit"
        ],
        [
          "direct",
          "direct"
        ],
        [
          "statement",
          "statement"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person or proposition"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to enfold, entangle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enfold",
          "enfold"
        ],
        [
          "entangle",
          "entangle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) to enfold, entangle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪmˈplaɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/En-us-imply.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪ"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "to have as a necessary consequence",
      "word": "entail"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to have as a necessary consequence",
      "word": "implicate"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to suggest tacitly",
      "word": "allude"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to suggest tacitly",
      "word": "hint"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to suggest tacitly",
      "word": "insinuate"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to suggest tacitly",
      "word": "suggest"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to suggest tacitly",
      "tags": [
        "proscribed"
      ],
      "word": "infer"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "označavam",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "означавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "implicar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "comportar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yìwèizhe",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "意味着"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "implikovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "implicere"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "impliceren"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "inhouden"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "merkitä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "seurata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "impliquer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "implizieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "zur Folge haben"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "maga után von"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "magában foglal"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "implikál"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "következtetni enged"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "implikar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "implicare"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "medføre"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "innebære"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "implisere"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "medføre"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "innebere"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "implisere"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "pociągać (za sobą)"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "implicar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "ter como consequência"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "acarretar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "predpolagátʹ",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "предполага́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "implicar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "acarrear"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "conllevar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "implicera"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "gerektirmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "işaret etmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "prypuskaty",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "припускати"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to have as a consequence",
      "word": "bao hàm"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "podrazbiram",
      "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
      "word": "подразбирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
      "word": "implicar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
      "word": "suggereren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
      "word": "tarkoittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
      "word": "väittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
      "word": "impliquer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
      "word": "implizieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
      "word": "implikar"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
      "word": "implisere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podrazumevátʹ",
      "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "подразумева́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
      "word": "implicar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
      "word": "kastetmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "maty na uvazi",
      "sense": "to suggest by a logical inference",
      "word": "мати на увазі"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "inṭawā",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "اِنْطَوَى"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "namjakacʹ",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "намякаць"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "namjaknúcʹ",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "намякну́ць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zagatvam",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "загатвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "namekvam",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "намеквам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "insinuar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "ànshì",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "暗示"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "ànzhǐ",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "暗指"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "naznačit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "impliceren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "vihjailla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "antaa ymmärtää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "vihjata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "insinuer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "sous-entendre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "bedeuten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "implizieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "yponoó",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "υπονοώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "sugall"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "utal"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "céloz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "sejtet"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "akar(ja) mondani"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "gefa í skyn"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "benda til"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "implikar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "honomekasu",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "ほのめかす"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "insinuere"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "antyde"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "به طور ضمنی اشاره کردن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "sugerować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "dar a entender"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "insinuar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "namekátʹ",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "намека́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nameknútʹ",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "намекну́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "ciallaich"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "seaghaich"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "insinuar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "dar a entender"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "antyda"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "insinuera"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "ima etmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "manasına getirmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "natjakaty",
      "sense": "to express suggestively rather than as a direct statement",
      "word": "натякати"
    }
  ],
  "word": "imply"
}

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