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Involve

//ɪnˈvɒlv// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include. transitive

    "My job involves forecasting economic trends."

  2. 2
    make complex or intricate or complicated wordnet
  3. 3
    To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include.; To include (something) as a logical or natural, or necessary component, or consequence or effect of something else; to entail, to imply. specifically, transitive

    "Many conceive there is ſomevvhat amiſſe, and that as vve uſually ſay, they are unbleſt untill they put on their girdle: vvherein (although moſt knovv not vvhat they ſay) there are involved unknovvne conſiderations; for by a girdle or cincture are ſymbolically implied Truth, Reſolution and Readineſſe unto Action, […]"

  4. 4
    occupy or engage the interest of wordnet
  5. 5
    To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation. transitive

    "By involving herself in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live."

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  1. 6
    require as useful, just, or proper wordnet
  2. 7
    To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.; Chiefly followed by with: to engage (someone or oneself) in an emotional or sexual relationship. also, reflexive, specifically, transitive
  3. 8
    contain as a part wordnet
  4. 9
    To entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); especially, to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation. figuratively, transitive

    "to involve a person in debt or misery"

  5. 10
    have as a necessary feature wordnet
  6. 11
    To cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround. archaic, transitive

    "to involve in darkness or obscurity"

  7. 12
    connect closely and often incriminatingly wordnet
  8. 13
    To form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds; to entwine, to fold up, to roll, to wind round. archaic, transitive

    "VVe muſt be ſtiffe and ſteddie in reſolue. / Let's thus our hands, our hearts, our armes inuolue."

  9. 14
    engage as a participant wordnet
  10. 15
    To make (something) intricate; to complicate. archaic, obsolete, transitive

    "And as wililye as thoſe ſhrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I ſhall vſe ſo playn and open a way therin, that euery man ſhall well ſee the trouth."

  11. 16
    To multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times; to raise to any assigned power. archaic, obsolete, transitive

    "a quantity involved to the third or fourth power"

Etymology

PIE word *h₁én From Late Middle English involven (“to cloud; to encumber; to envelop, surround; to ponder (something); (reflexive) to concern (oneself) with something”) [and other forms], borrowed from Old French involver, envoudre, or from its etymon Latin involvere, the present active infinitive of Latin involvō (“to roll to or upon something; to roll about; to coil or curl up; to cover; to envelop, wrap up; to overwhelm”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + volvō (“to roll; to tumble”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn; to wind (turn coils)”)).

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