involve

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Verb 1.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2 See also 1.2.3 Translations 1.3 References

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Latin involvere.

[edit] Verb

to involve (third-person singular simple present involves, present participle involving, simple past and past participle involved)

1. To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
2. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
4. To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
5. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
6. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.
7. To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
8. (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.
9. Status: involved

[edit] Synonyms

• to imply
• include
• implicate
• complicate
• entangle
• embarrass
• overwhelm

[edit] See also

• involver
• voluble
• involute

[edit] Translations

[edit] References

• involve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913