involve

  1. Verb.  To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
  2. Verb.  To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
  3. Verb.  To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
  4. Verb.  To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
  5. Verb.  To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
  6. Verb.  To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.
  7. Verb.  To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
  8. Verb.  (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.
  9. Verb.  Status: involved.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.