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involve

in'vɒlv8 senses · 81 ms
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verb/ɪnˈvɒlv//ɪnˈvɔlv//ɪnˈvoːv/
  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

    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.specificallytransitive

    • 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 cinctu
    • [A]t the making of this Covenant, God ſpake onely to Abraham; and therefore contracted not vvith any of his family, or ſeed, othervviſe then as their vvills (vvhich make the eſſence of all Covenants) vvere before the Contract involved in th
  3. 3

    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.
    • How can we involve the audience more during the show?
  4. 4

    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.alsoreflexivespecifically

  5. 5

    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.figurativelytransitive

    • to involve a person in debt or misery
  6. 6

    To cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround.archaictransitive

    • to involve in darkness or obscurity
  7. 7

    To form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds; to entwine, to fold up, to roll, to wind round.archaictransitive

    • VVe muſt be ſtiffe and ſteddie in reſolue. / Let's thus our hands, our hearts, our armes inuolue.
    • [S]ome of Serpent kinde / Wondrous in length and corpulence involv'd / Thir Snakie foulds, and added wings.
  8. 8

    To make (something) intricate; to complicate.archaicobsoletetransitive

    • 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.
    • [H]e ſeemed rather vvilling to diſpatch the buſines vvith judgement, then to involue it vvith nice diſtinctions.
  9. 9

    To multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times; to raise to any assigned power.archaicobsoletetransitive

    • a quantity involved to the third or fourth power

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