involvement

transitive verb involved, involving

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