- in|volve
- in|volve «ihn VOLV», transitive verb, -volved, -volv|ing.1. to have as a necessary part, condition, or result; take in; include: »
Housekeeping involves cooking, washing dishes, sweeping, and cleaning. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind (John Donne).
SYNONYM(S): entail.2. to have an effect on; affect: »These changes in the business involve the interest of all the owners.
3. to bring (into difficulty or danger); cause to be unpleasantly concerned: »One foolish mistake can involve you in a good deal of trouble. When they fell, they involved armies and provinces in their fall (Edward Gibbon).
4. Figurative. to entangle; complicate: »We must not further involve the statement; it is already too hard to understand.
5. Figurative. to take up the attention of; occupy: »She was involved in working out a puzzle.
SYNONYM(S): absorb.6. Figurative. to wrap; enfold; envelop: »Clouds involved the mountain top. The outcome of the war was involved in doubt.
SYNONYM(S): surround.8. Mathematics. to raise to a given power.╂[< Old French involver, learned borrowing from Latin involvere < in- in + volvere to roll]–in|volv´er, noun.Synonym Study 3 Involve, implicate mean to draw someone or something into a situation hard to get out of. Involve suggests entanglement in a situation that is unpleasantly embarrassing or hard to settle, but not necessarily a disgraceful one: »Buying an expensive car involved me in debt. Telling one lie usually involves a person in many more.
Implicate means to connect someone with something disgraceful or bad: »Having the stolen goods in his possession implicated him in the robbery.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
