The Collaborative International Dictionary
Involve \In*volve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Involved; p. pr. & vb. n. Involving.] [L. involvere, involutum, to roll about, wrap up; pref. in- in + volvere to roll: cf. OF. involver. See Voluble, and cf. Involute.]
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To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
Some of serpent kind . . . involved Their snaky folds.
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To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
And leave a sing[`e]d bottom all involved With stench and smoke.
--Milton. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure. ``Involved discourses.''
--Locke.-
To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
He knows His end with mine involved.
--Milton.The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
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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.
--Pope.Earth with hell To mingle and involve.
--Milton. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.
To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb. ``Involved in a deep study.''
--Sir W. Scott.-
(Math.) 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.
Syn: To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle; embarrass; overwhelm.
Usage: To Involve, Imply. Imply is opposed to express, or set forth; thus, an implied engagement is one fairly to be understood from the words used or the circumstances of the case, though not set forth in form. Involve goes beyond the mere interpretation of things into their necessary relations; and hence, if one thing involves another, it so contains it that the two must go together by an indissoluble connection. War, for example, involves wide spread misery and death; the premises of a syllogism involve the conclusion.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of involve English)
Usage examples of "involving".
Rhyssa shot back, willing Mallie, the strongest precog that she had set on watch for anything involving Peter, to answer.
I will not construct any exercises involving the plural form of the possessive and instrumental cases.
She remembered something about ‘accepting civilian volunteers into a military mission’ --not recommended, but it did happen--and more than one passage strongly cautioning Fleet officers from involving themselves in local politics.
One rarely asked Theks a question involving time since the long-lived silicon life-form counted in sidereal years of their planet of origin, which generally amounted to centuries of more ephemeral species -- such as Kai's.
True, there were occasional incidents involving lesser lights like merchants, captains, executives and enough freaks eking out a marginal living on any big station like this to account for GBA and 'accidents' as well as extortionist intimidation but nothing on the scale of this felony.
And a very formal courtesy involving the f%se of the ‘sands of reason.
And while there was indeed a High Families convict on Shemali, the man had been sent there for a particularly revolting series of crimes involving the torture of small children.
She had never been able to stimulate an Incident involving any of the known abilities.
We got only one other personal precog involving the Incident but your data alone— particularly the registry—was sufficient.
Bud worth set himself for her fury in reporting a precog involving the man.
She granted permission for an expedition involving Peter, Tirla, and Carmen Stein.
He had had that dream involving her, and he'd dreamed long enough with 'Dinis to know that there were true ones.
It was easy for her to react suitably, for a death involving crystal would not have been painless.
All I knew about that business was that the men delivered such and such an ore to such and such a site and that they had developed something involving Petraseal that let them succeed at mining where the Company had been unable to.
This is not hard to imagine, given the telepathic links between humans and animals, animals and other animals (as witnessed by many in the incident involving the Asian Esoteric and Exotic Company on the Southern Continent), and occasionally, as in an earlier incident, plants, the planet and human and animal agencies.