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| 1. | [ verb ] connect closely and often incriminatingly | |
| Synonyms: | regard affect | |
| Examples: | "This new ruling affects your business" |
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| Related terms: | refer implicate respect | |
| 2. | [ verb ] engage as a participant | |
| Examples: | "Don't involve me in your family affairs!" |
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| Related terms: | admit embroil entangle engagement | |
| 3. | [ verb ] have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail | |
| Synonyms: | imply | |
| Examples: | "This decision involves many changes" |
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| Related terms: | necessitate carry involvement | |
| 4. | [ verb ] require as useful, just, or proper | |
| Synonyms: | require need demand take call_for necessitate ask postulate | |
| Examples: | "It takes nerve to do what she did" "success usually requires hard work" "This job asks a lot of patience and skill" "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice" "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert" |
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| Related terms: | obviate imply cost claim cry_out_for draw govern claim need requirement necessity necessity | |
| 5. | [ verb ] contain as a part | |
| Examples: | "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses" |
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| Related terms: | include | |
| 6. | [ verb ] occupy or engage the interest of | |
| Examples: | "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon" |
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| Related terms: | absorb interest | |
| 7. | [ verb ] wrap | |
| Examples: | "The tower was involved in mist" |
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| Related terms: | envelop involution | |
| 8. | [ verb ] make complex or intricate or complicated | |
| Examples: | "The situation was rather involved" |
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| Related terms: | complicate | |
| Similar spelling: |
involved involute involucre inviolate inviolable |
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