im⋅pli⋅cate

- verb
1. to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner.
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.
4. to fold or twist together; intertwine; interlace.

in⋅volve

- verb
1. to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail.
2. to engage or employ.
3. to affect, as something within the scope of operation.
4. to include, contain, or comprehend within itself or its scope.
5. to bring into an intricate or complicated form or condition.
6. to bring into difficulties.
7. to cause to be troublesomely associated or concerned, as in something embarrassing or unfavorable.
8. to combine inextricably.
9. to implicate, as in guilt or crime, or in any matter or affair.
10. to engage the interests or emotions or commitment of.
11. to preoccupy or absorb fully.
12. to envelop or enfold, as if with a wrapping.
13. to swallow up, engulf, or overwhelm.
14. a. to roll, surround, or shroud, as in a wrapping.
b. to roll up on itself; wind spirally; coil; wreathe.

in⋅sti⋅gate

- verb
1. to cause by incitement; foment.
2. to urge, provoke, or incite to some action or course.

in⋅cite

- verb
1. to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action.

in⋅spire

- verb
1. to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence.
2. to produce or arouse.
3. to fill or affect with a specified feeling, thought, etc.
4. to influence or impel.
5. to animate, as an influence, feeling, thought, or the like, does.
6. to communicate or suggest by a divine or supernatural influence.
7. to guide or control by divine influence.
8. to prompt or instigate by influence, without avowal of responsibility.
9. to give rise to, bring about, cause, etc.
10. to take into the lungs in breathing; inhale.
11. a. to infuse by breathing.
b. to breathe into or upon.