involve

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

• My job involves forecasting economic trends.

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

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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?

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

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

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

• to involve in darkness or obscurity

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.

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.
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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