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involve(dictionary)
involve(dictionary)

involve (iou)



involve verb trans. Also envolve. LME.
[Latin involvere, formed as IN-2 + volvere roll.]
Wrap, surround, enfold, envelop. Foll. by in, with. LME.
E. B. Browning I saw Fog only, the great tawny weltering fog, Involve the passive city.
Make obscure or difficult to understand; complicate, entangle. LME.
E. Pagitt This doctrine..is involved with absurdities, and inexplicable contradictions. Oxford English Dictionary We must not further involve the statement; it is intricate enough already.
Bring (a person) into a matter; embroil (a person) in trouble, difficulties, perplexity, etc. Freq. in pass. LME.
A. Miller If you want to commit suicide do it alone, don't involve others. J. Heller I dislike getting involved in long conversations.
b. Commit emotionally; concern closely with another, in a matter. Freq. in pass. M20.
M. Piercy I thought you'd be involved with some guy. J. Gathorne-Hardy I don't think you can help people unless you're prepared to be involved.
Wind spirally; wreathe, coil. M16.
Milton Some of the Serpent kinde,..involv'd Thir Snakie foulds.
b. fig. Join as by winding together; intertwine with. M17.
L. Sterne Our misfortunes were involved together.
a. Include covertly in or under something; wrap up. E17-E18.
b. Include, contain, comprehend. M17.
c. Contain implicitly; include as essential; imply, call for, entail. M17.
P. Roth I didn't realise that there was so much psychology involved in dentistry. G. Priestland Being a Christian involves constant growth.
d. Affect, concern directly. M19.
U. S. Grant The safety of the nation was involved. I. Compton-Burnett You,..are virtually of the family and involved in its changes. H. Wilson There have been twenty-one changes of prime minister this century, involving fifteen men.
Absorb completely; envelop, overwhelm. E17.
Tennyson My love involves the love before; My love is vaster passion now.
b. Engross; occupy (a person) fully. M20.
R. P. Jhabvala He was completely involved in the work of the movement.
Implicate in a charge or crime; cause or prove (a person) to be concerned. M17.
Math. Raise (a quantity) to a power. Now rare or obsolete. L17.
involver noun M19.