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Involve is defined as to include or add as a participant.

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An example of to involve is a couple including a friend in their drama.

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See involve in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb involved, involving

Archaic to enfold or envelop as in a wrapping: fog involved the shoreline
Obsolete to wind spirally; coil up
to make intricate, tangled, or complicated
to entangle in trouble, difficulty, danger, etc.; implicate
to draw or hold within itself; include: a riot that soon involved thousands
to include by necessity; entail; require: a project involving years of work
to relate to or affect: the matter involves his honor
to make busy; employ; occupy: involved the class in research

Origin: ME involven < L involvere < in-, in + volvere, to roll: see walk

Related Forms:

involvement noun

See involve in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb in·volved, in·volv·ing, in·volves

To contain as a part; include.
To have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail: was told that the job would involve travel. See Synonyms at include.
To engage as a participant; embroil: involved the bystanders in his dispute with the police.
a. To connect closely and often incriminatingly; implicate: evidence that involved the governor in the scandal.
b. To influence or affect: The matter is serious because it involves your reputation.
To occupy or engage the interest of: a story that completely involved me for the rest of the evening.
To make complex or intricate; complicate.
To wrap; envelop: a castle that was involved in mist.
Archaic To wind or coil about.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English involven

Origin: , from Latin involvere, to enwrap

Origin: : in-, in; see in-²

Origin: + volvere, to roll, turn; see wel-² in Indo-European roots

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Related Forms:

in·volveˈment noun

in·volvˈer noun

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