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involving
Variant of involve
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
Related Forms:
- involvement noun
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