Involve /(?)/

In·volve

Involve

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Involved; p. pr. & vb. n. Involving

  1. To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
    Some of serpent kind . . . involved Their snaky folds.
  2. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
    And leave a singèd bottom all involved With stench and smoke.
  3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
  4. To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
    He knows His end with mine involved.
    The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
  5. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge. [R.]
    The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast involuntary throng.
    Earth with hell To mingle and involve.
  6. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.
  7. To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
  8. 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. (Math.)