imply

Verb

• have as a necessary feature
  • This decision involves many changes
    

• suggest that someone is guilty

• have as a logical consequence
  • The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers
    

• suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic

• express or state indirectly

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  involve , incriminate , inculpate , entail , mean , connote