implicate vs tangle

implicate

verb
  • To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way. 

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

  • To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature. 

noun
  • The thing implied. 

tangle

verb
  • To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight. 

  • To mix together or intertwine. 

  • To catch and hold. 

  • To become mixed together or intertwined. 

noun
  • Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria. 

  • An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight. 

  • A complicated or confused state or condition. 

  • A tangled twisted mass. 

  • A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease. 

  • Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person. 

  • A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times. 

  • An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea. 

  • A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns. 

How often have the words implicate and tangle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )