Word Definition

Involve

  1. To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
  2. 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.
  3. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
  4. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
  5. To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
  6. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.
  7. To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
  8. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.