Definitions for involve
ɪnˈvɒlvin·volve

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. involve, affect, regardverb

   connect closely and often incriminatingly

   "This new ruling affects your business"

2. involveverb

   engage as a participant

   "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"

3. imply, involveverb

   have as a necessary feature

   "This decision involves many changes"

4. necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demandverb

   require as useful, just, or proper

   "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"

5. involveverb

   contain as a part

   "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"

6. involveverb

   occupy or engage the interest of

   "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"

7. involveverb

   make complex or intricate or complicated

   "The situation was rather involved"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. involveverb

   To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

2. involveverb

   To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.

3. involveverb

   To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

4. involveverb

   To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

5. involveverb

   To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.

6. involveverb

   To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

7. involveverb

   To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.

8. involveverb

   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. involveverb

   Status: involved

10. Etymology: From involvere.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Involveverb

   Etymology: involvo, Latin.

   1. To inwrap; to cover with any thing circumfluent.

   Leave a singed bottom all involv'd
   With stench and smoke. John Milton.

   No man could miss his way to heaven for want of light; and yet so vain are they as to think they oblige the world by involving it in darkness. Decay of Piety.

   In a cloud involv'd, he takes his flight,
   Where Greeks and Trojans mix'd in mortal fight. Dryden.

   2. To imply; to comprise.

   We cannot demonstrate these things so as to shew that the contrary necessarily involves a contradiction. John Tillotson.

   3. To entwist; to join.

   He knows his end with mine involv'd. John Milton.

   4. To take in; to catch.

   The gath'ring number, as it moves along,
   Involves a vast involuntary throng. Alexander Pope.

   Sin we should hate altogether; but our hatred of it may involve the person which we should not hate at all. Thomas Sprat.

   One death involves
   Tyrants and slaves. James Thomson, Summer.

   5. To intangle.

   This reference of the name to a thing whereof we have no idea, is so far from helping at all, that it only serves the more to involve us in difficulties. John Locke.

   As obscure and imperfect ideas often involve our reason, so do dubious words puzzle mens reason. John Locke.

   6. To complicate; to make intricate.

   Some involv'd their snaky folds. John Milton.

   Syllogism is of necessary use, even to the lovers of truth, to shew them the fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or involved discourses. John Locke.

   7. To blend; to mingle together confusedly.

   Earth with hell mingle and involve. John Milton.

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1. involve

   To involve is to include or engage a person, thing, or factor as a necessary or significant aspect, in an action, event, situation or to have participation in something. It could also mean to significantly affect or concern oneself with a particular activity or situation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Involveverb

   to roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine

2. Involveverb

   to envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity

3. Involveverb

   to complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure

4. Involveverb

   to connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply

5. Involveverb

   to take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge

6. Involveverb

   to envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery

7. Involveverb

   to engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb

8. Involveverb

   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

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1. Involve

   The Involve Foundation is a leading UK based charity focused on public participation.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Involve

   in-volv′, v.t. to wrap up: to envelop: to implicate: to include: to complicate: to overwhelm: to catch: (arith.) to multiply a quantity into itself any given number of times.—n. Involve′ment, act of involving: state of being involved or entangled. [Fr.—L. involvĕre—in, upon, volvĕre, volūtum, to roll.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. involve

   To ask respectfully for a contribution.

   They do involve all of the community in the creation of a community allotment program.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 22, 2020  

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   involve

   To connect and participate.

   They were involved with the local camogie club and contributed their team, energy and effort.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 30, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Complicate
   • Engross
   • Have
   • Include

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'involve' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2460

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'involve' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2973

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'involve' in Verbs Frequency: #98

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of involve in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of involve in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of involve in a Sentence

1. Donald Trump:

   I hope it doesn’t involve violence. I hope it doesn’t. I’m not suggesting that, i hope it doesn’t involve violence, and I don’t think it will. But I will say this, it’s a rigged system, it’s a crooked system. It’s 100 percent corrupt.

2. Peter McWilliams:

   The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

3. David Whelan:

   We look to the U.S. government to find a way to have him freed and that will involve discussions with the Russian federation and it may involve conciliatory exchanges or it may involve punitive measures like sanctions.

4. Bill Oesterle:

   I haven't figured out how I'm going to do that, that could involve helping somebody else run. That could involve working on legislative races. That could involve becoming a candidate myself.

5. John Smith:

   There are some that are months and they're still waiting, those are the tougher calls, often that involve broader foreign policy issues or that involve complex legal issues.

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