transitive verb involved -·volved′, involving -·volv′·ing

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

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