Involve

Definition: Involve

Involve

Verb

1. Connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business".

2. Engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!".

3. Have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail; "This decision involves many changes".

4. Require as useful, just, or proper; "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".

5. Contain as a part; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses".

6. Wrap; "The tower was involved in mist".

7. Occupy or engage the interest of; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon".

8. Make complex or intricate or complicated; "The situation was rather involved".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "involve" was first used: sometime in the mid-14th century. (references)

Note: Involve \In*volve"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Involved; present participle verb or noun Involving.]. (references)

Synonyms: Involve

Arrangement

Turn topsy-turvy; (invert); bedevil; complicate, involve, perplex, confound; imbrangle, embrangle, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle, dishevel, ruffle; rumple; (fold).

Clothing

Verb: invest; cover; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap, enwrap; wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumvest.

Composition

Include; (in a class); contain, hold, comprehend, take in, admit, embrace, embody; involve, implicate; drag into.

Evidence

Verb: be evidence; Noun: evince, show, betoken, tell of; indicate; (denote); imply, involve, argue, bespeak, breathe.

Imagination

Verb: mean, signify, express; import, purport; convey, imply, breathe, indicate, bespeak, bear a sense; tell of, speak of; touch on; point to, allude to; drive at; involve; (latency); declare; (affirm).

Latency Implication

Involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference; entail; whisper; (conceal).

Crosswords: Involve

Does his job involve listening at keyholes (The Guns of Navarone; writing credit: Alistair MacLean; Carl Foreman)

You know, procedures we can use that don't involve magic spells (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Does Phase Two involve cookies (Lizzie McGuire; writing credit: Ole Kolster)

As long as it doesn't involve wearing a suit and doing a lot of flying (Smallville; writing credit: Richard Pinto; Sharat Sardana)

It will involve another spinal (The Exorcist; writing credit: William Peter Blatty)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 130 Ways to Involve Parents in Youth Ministry (reference)

• 176 Ways to Involve Parents (reference)

• Boredom-Busting Ideas to Involve Children in Adult Worship (reference)

• Building a Learning Organization: 7 Lessons to Involve Your Ceo (reference)

• If at All Possible, Involve a Cow: The Book of College Pranks (reference)

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Blows up during the early phases of Battle off Cape Engaño, 25 October 1944. The damage appears to involve an large and intense fire in the vicinity of the ship's torpedo tubes. This view is cropped from Photo # 80-G-284703. Credit: NAVY.

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No hindrance shall be placed in the way of those who wish to acquire a different nationality, but in such case the acquisition of the new nationality will involve the loss of any other. (reference)

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Health

It can involve many steps and decisions each day. (references)

This may involve surgery, antibiotics, or other drugs. (references)

E-beams and X-ray facilities do not involve radioactive substances. (references)

Business

In theory, this will involve a plug-in device for a mobile phone. (references)

The latter involve more complex reporting and qualification requirements. (references)

Treatment may involve centrifuging and/or filtering to remove impurities. (references)

Children

Sierra Leone

Such programs involve reconstructive surgery, prostheses, and vocational training to help them acquire new work skills. (references)

South Africa

Between January 2000 and June, the police reported 31,780 cases of rape and attempted rape of children; however, observers believe that these figures represent a small percentage of the actual incidents of child rape, because most cases involve family members and are not reported. (references)

Civil Liberties

Angola

There also was growing hostility against traditional religions that involve shamans. (references)

Economic History

Kazakhstan

The disputes involve, in some instances, more than $100 million. (references)

Ecuador

Most stock trades involve shares in a handful of banks and companies. (references)

Egypt

Resolution of cases can involve lengthy court proceedings and negotiations. (references)

Human Rights

Lebanon

Such cases sometimes involve individuals connected to political groups or accused of criminal activity. (references)

Dominican Republic

The police say that they rely upon unlawful detention without presentation to a court because some cases involve more complicated investigations. (references)

Kenya

This is done most often in cases that involve marriage, death, and inheritance issues and in which there is an original contract founded in customary law. (references)

Indigenous People

Canada

Other test cases that involve members of aboriginal groups being tried on charges of illegally harvesting timber on Crown land continued in the court systems in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. (references)

Minorities

Indonesia

While most documented cases involve Christians who converted to Islam, there have been reports of Muslims who were forced to convert to Christianity in Halmahera, North Maluku. (references)

Egypt

Observers, including human rights groups, find it extremely difficult to determine whether compulsion was used, as most cases involve a Coptic girl who converts to Islam when she marries a Muslim boy. (references)

Political Economy

Ukraine

Areas of particular strain involve energy supplies and gas transit. (references)

Samoa

Judgments by the fono usually involve fines or, more rarely, banishment from the village. (references)

Sudan

Witnesses may be permitted to appear at military trials in cases that do not involve clemency. (references)

Political Rights

Kenya

The new Commission is expected to have a draft constitution ready by October 2002. In July at the start of the CKRC hearings, the President declared that NGO's and churches should not involve themselves with the review process and should not engage in civic education. (references)

Trade

Turkey

Government tenders often involve bid and performance bonds. (references)

Romania

On average, weekly transactions total 2,037 and involve 5,452,682 shares. (references)

Travel

Senegal

Most reported incidents involve pickpockets, purse-snatchers and street scam artists. (references)

Norway

Most crimes involve the theft of personal property, e.g., residential burglary, auto theft, or vandalism to parked cars. (references)

Nigeria

These are usually both fraudulent and illegal and could involve situations that potentially violate both Nigerian and U.S. law. (references)

Women

Kuwait

Of the complaints received, approximately 60 percent involve spousal abuse of noncitizen women. (references)

Bulgaria

According to a survey by a local polling agency, 80 percent of rapes involve a known assailant. (references)

India

Although most dowry deaths involve lower and middle-class families, the phenomenon crosses both caste and religious lines. (references)

Worker Rights

Iceland

There were no reliable estimates on how many women this may involve. (references)

India

Only a small fraction of arrests made under the PITA involve traffickers. (references)

Greece

But the crime must involve at least three perpetrators for this law to be used. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "involve": involve oneself in. Additional references.

Albanian

përfshij (add in, comprehend, comprise, contain, count in, cover, embrace, imply, include, incorporate, mix in, reach, span, store, subsume, sweep), ngatërroj (bedevil, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disorient, disorientate, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, entangle, entrap, flummox, fuddle, garble, hash, immerse, implicate, intricate, jerk off, jumble, lug in, make a hash of cutting, make a mess of, mess about, mistake, mix up, monkey, muddle, muddy, put out, Ravel, snarl, tamper, tie up), mbështjell (clothe, coil, encase, enfold, enlace, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inlace, lap, mantle, muffle, nuzzle, overcast, reel, reel up, roll, scarf, sheet, throw on, throw out, tuck up, twine, underpin, wind, wind on, wrap, wreathe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ورط (commit, embarrass, embroil, fix, implicate, tangle, wind), ‏إنطوى على (enclose, enfold, inclose), ‏إلتزم (abide, adhere, take on), ‏إقتضى (call, demand, take), ‏إستخدم (employ, engage, exercise, exploit, harness, hire, hunt, indent, spend, take on, use, utilize), ‏أثر في (affect, impact, influence, inspire, manipulate, overawe, prepossess, react, touch), ‏ربط (attach, attachment, bind, connect, couple, faster, hitch, interface, join, knit, knitting, lash, lash down, ligature, link, moor, relate, rope, secure, set, slur, strap, swaddle, tether, tying, unite), ‏شمل (comprehend, comprise, cover, embody, embrace, encompass, enfold, include, included, unity), ‏شارك (be shared, contribute, engage, enter, join in, part, partake, participate, partner, share, share in, sit in, spare one's life, take, take part). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усложнявам (complicate, elaborate, perplex, snarl, tangle), въвличам (commit, draw in, entangle, implicate, mix up, plunge), включвам (add in, comprise, cover, engage in, engraft, gear, include, incorporate, insert, latch, make, number, occlude, plug in, subsume, take in, throw in), влека след себе си (entail), означавам (amount, bespeak, betoken, connotate, denote, imply, import, indicate, intend, mean, purport, represent, signify, spell, typify), знача (denote, imply, intend, mean, purport, signify, sound, stand for), загръщам (enfold, envelop, enwrap, lap, snuggle, tuck, wrap), замесвам (implicate, knead), забърквам (baffle, complicate, embroil, mix up, muff, perplex, snarl up, tangle), бивам силно заинтересуван, повличам след себе си, повдигам на степен, подразбирам се (be understood, inhere in). (various references)

Chinese 

纏 (annoy, coil, tangle, to bother, wind around, wrap round), 牽扯 (implicate), 牽涉 (implicated), 波及 (affect, spread to), 涉及 (touch upon), 涉 (concern, to experience, wade), 介入 (involvement, Involving), 帶有 (have). (various references)

Czech

zahrnout (comprehend, count, embrace, encompass, fill up, include, incorporate, take in), zabalit (do up, enfold, envelop, enwrap, make up, pack, pack up, package, parcel up, turn in, wrap, wrap up), vyžadovat (ask, call for, claim, exact, necessitate, require, stipulate, take), týkat se (appertain, apply, bear, concern, pertain, regard, relate), svinout (coil up, furl, take in), předpokládat (assume, imagine, postulate, presume, presuppose, suppose, surmise, trust, visualize). (various references)

Danish

virksomhederne kan anlaegge sag om generelle beslutninger,som de finder indebaerer magtfordrejning i forhold til dem (undertakings may institute proceedings against general decisions which they consider to involve a misuse of powers affecting them). (various references)

Dutch

gepaard gaan met (attend, attended by, go with). (various references)

Farsi 

گیرانداختن (Circumvent, Entangle, Knot, Mesh), گرفتارکردن (Enmesh, Entangle, Enwrap, Hook, Implicate, Incriminate, Tangle), گرفتارشدن (Queer), واردکردن (Import, Induct, Intern), درگیرکردن یاشدن . (various references)

Finnish

tuoda mukanaan (bring along, bring in its train, bring with one, entail), kietoa (twine, wind, wrap up). (various references)

French

influencer (influence), impliquer, utiliser (indent), s'engager (insert), se mêler (interfuse, mix in), s'accompagner de, prendre part (sit in), participer (get in), nécessiter, comprendre (be included, include, take in), avoir liaisons, aller de pair avec (hand in), aller de pair, affecter, être accompagne de. (various references)

German

verwickeln (embroil, engage, entangle, implicate, pitch, tangle, tangle up, to embroil, to entangle, to involve), hineinziehen (drag in, entangle, go in, implicate, move in, pull in, to involve). (various references)

Greek 

περιλαμβάνω (accommodate, comprehend, comprise, comprize, contain, include), εμπλέκω (enmesh, implicate, snarl, tangle). (various references)

Hebrew 

ללפף (clasp, coil, embrace, enwrap, wind), לשאת בחובו, לערב (mingle, mix), ל�"יות כרוך ב-, ל�'רור לתוך, ל�'רור (drag, draw, grate, haul, pull, tow, trail, tug), לסבך (complicate, confuse, embroil, implicate, mesh, mess, sophisticate). (various references)

Hungarian

magába foglal (contain, embrace, implicate, imply, incorporate, subsume, to comprehend, to comprise, to contain, to embody, to imply, to incorporate, to inhere, to subsume, to unite), maga után von (connote, entail, imply, to bring in its train, to entail, to implicate, to imply, to involve, to spell), belekever (implicate, incorporate, to admix, to entangle, to fold in, to implicate, to incorporate, to incriminate, to involve), beleavatkozik (encroach, horn in, intermeddle, meddle, mix in, put in one's oar, to chip in, to encroach, to put in, to put in one's oar), beburkol (enfold, enshroud, envelop, to case, to enshroud, to enswathe, to envelop, to incase, to involve, to sheathe, to shroud, to swathe, to tuck sg away, wrap). (various references)

Indonesian

menyangkut (concern, relate to), membelit (bind, wind around), meliputi (engulf, include, pervade), melibatkan (incriminate), babit. (various references)

Italian

involgere (wrap, wrappers), implicare (connote, entail, implicate, imply, mean), immischiare (interfere, meddle in), richiedere (apply for, ask, ask again, ask back, demand, exact, postulate, request, require, solicit, take), comportare (acquit, act, entail, imply), complicare (aggravate, complicate, embroil, get complicated, perplex, sophisticate, thicken), coinvolgere (embroil). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

含む (contain, includeone's), インフレ対策 (counter-inflation measures, impedance, imperial, implement, implementation, implementor, implication, import, important, impossible, impotence, impression, impressive, improvisation, in play, inheritance, input, invader, invention, inventory, inventory cycles, inventory finance, inventory recession, inventory recovery, investment, investment analyst, investment bank, investment counselor, invoice). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

インボルブ . (various references)

Korean 

연루시키십시�". (various references)

Manx

cassey (change, curl, distort, flick, flounce, pervert, screw, spin, squirm, swing, swirl, tangle, turn, turn over, twist, warp, whip-round, wrench, wring). (various references)

Norwegian

involvere, trekke inn, medføre (entail). (various references)

Pig Latin

involveay.(various references)

Portuguese

implicar (carry, connotate, connote, draw in, entangle, implicate, imply, import, infer, predicate, presuppose, purport, spell, suggest), ter como conseqüência (draw in, result), misturar (admix, blend, combine, commingle, concoct, confound, diffuse, draw in, fuse, huddle, incorporate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, jumble, knead, mash, medley, merge, mingle, mix, mix up, shuffle, temper), envolver (beset, circumvent, close, convolve, cover, draw in, enclasp, encompass, enfold, entangle, envelop, enwrap, fold, gird, implicate, import, invest, lap, lap up, mantle, mix up, wind, wrap). (various references)

Romanian

interesa (affect, commend, concern, import, interest), implica (connote, entail, implicate, imply), vârî (Bob, creep, crib, dab, dig, dip, drive, duck, engraft in, immerse, impress, introduce, jab, Lodge, pick, poke, pull up, put in, stab, stick, Stow, stuff, thrust, tuck), necesita (ask, call, claim, demand, have, infer, necessitate, need, require, want), comporta (behave, require), cere (apply for, ask, ask for, beg, bid, cadge, call for, challenge, charge, claim, command, court, demand, desire, exact, expect, have, implore, necessitate, petition, request, require, require smth. of smb., Sue, urge), bãga (Bob, drive, immerse, impress, insert, interject, introduce, intrude, invest, jab, land, Lodge, put in, stick, Stow, stuff, thrust, tuck), atrage dupã sine (call forth, carry, invite), antrena (coach, drill, engage, entail, fit, induct, inveigle, pace, rally, stimulate, train), amesteca (admix, adulterate, amalgamate, attemper, blend, combine, commingle, compound, concoct, confound, confuse, cross, dilute, embroil, entangle, immix, interblend, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, intersperse, jumble, medley, melt, merge, mingle, mix, muddle, pie, poison, rabble, shuffle, temper, work), încurca (complicate, confound, confuse, cumber, discomfit, embrangle, embroil, entangle, floor, foul, gravel, hamper, hash, hinder, intertangle, jumble, maze, medley, muddle, nonplus, perplex, pile up, pose, put out, puzzle, restrain, shuffle, sputter, stump, tangle, trouble). (various references)

Russian 

включать (add in, comprehend, comprise, embodied, embody, embrace, gear, geared, include, including, insert, install, key on, power on, subsume, switch in, take in, turn on). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uplesti (enmesh, entwine, splice, twine, twist, weave into, work in, wreathe), upetljati (embroil, entangle, mix up, tangle), povlačiti za sobom, obuhvatiti (clasp, comprehend, cover, envelop, implicate, include, span). (various references)

Spanish

implicar (embroil, entail, implicate, imply, predicate, purport), involucrarse, involucrar (implicate, jumble), implicarse (implicate), complicar (bedevil, complicate, perplex), complicarse (get involved, hamper, thicken), comprometer (bind, bring into, compromise, endanger, engage, implicate, jeopard, jeopardize), enmarañar (complicate, confuse, entangle, make a mess of, mat, perplex, Ravel, snarl, tangle, tangle up), enredar (confuse, embroil, entangle, implicate, intertwine, net, Ravel, set, tangle), acarrear (bring on, carry, cart, cause, entail, haul, result in, ship, tote, transport), envolver (blanket, cocoon, cover, do up, encircle, enfold, envelop, implicate, imply, lap, mantle, muffle, muffle up, pack, pack up, package, paper, parcel, shroud, surround, swaddle, swathe, tie up, whip, wind, wrap, wrap up, wreathe), traer consigo, meter (cause, dip, enclose, engage, Fay, inclose, insert, introduce, intrude, jug, jump on, key, lay down, Lodge, log in, make, place, poke, put, put down, shove, sink, Stow, telescope, throw about, throw away, throw on, thrust, tuck in, turf out, yank off), ocasionar (activate, bring about, cause, cause to take place, endanger, entail, give, give rise to, induce, jeopard, jeopardize, occasion, produce, throw up), suponer (entail, expect, guess, mean, presume, presuppose, pretend, say, suppose, surmise, trust), entenebrecer (darken, fog, obscure). (various references)

Swedish

involvera. (various references)

Turkish

yol açmak (beat a path, beget, blaze the trail, bring about, call forth, cause, cut, entail, evoke, give rise to, give smb. a lead, lie behind, raise, set forward), sokmak (bite, dig into, drag, drive, engraft, enter, immerse, implicate, ingraft, inject, insert, instil, instill, land, let in, pitchfork, poke, put, put in, ram, send, sink into, slide in, spatchcock, stick, sting, strike, take into, thrust, tuck, tuck in, work up), sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, lap, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), kapsamak (be inclusive of, blanket, compass, comprehend, comprise, contain, cover, embrace, encapsulate, enclose, encompass, implicate, incapsulate, inclose, include, span, subsume), gerektirmek (beggar, call for, entail, exact, imply, indicate, necessitate, require, suppose, take, want), bulaştırmak (bedabble, bedaub, besmear, blur, communicate, contaminate, corrupt, daub, dirty, drag, embroil, entangle, imbrue, implicate, infect, inweave, propagate, slush, smear, smudge, splodge, splotch, spread, taint, transmit, twine). (various references)

Ukrainian

спричинювати (bring about), втягувати (haul in, pull in, retract, web), містити в собі (contain, implicate, include), заглиблюватися (plummet). (various references)

conectatur, conexum, coniecturam, implicare, inplicat, inplicaverunt, involvere, obstrinxerat. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "involve": involved, involvedly, involvement, involvements, involver, involvers, involves. (additional references)

Words ending with "involve": interinvolve. (additional references)

Words containing "involve": interinvolved, interinvolves, noninvolved, noninvolvement, noninvolvements, uninvolved. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Involve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: envolve, inconve, invole, invovl, ivolve. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: eloin, envoi, levin, liven, novel, olein, olive, ovine, voile.

-3 letters: enol, evil, leno, levo, lien, line, lino, lion, live, loin, lone, love, nevi, noel, noil, oven, veil, vein, vile, vine, vino, viol, vive, vole.

-4 letters: eon, ion, lei, lev, lie, lin, nil, oil, ole, one, vie, voe.

-5 letters: el, en, in, li, lo, ne.

+1 letter: evolving, involved, involver, involves, lovevine.

+2 letters: devolving, involvers, lovevines, revolving.

+3 letters: coevolving, convulsive, involvedly, overliving, overloving, uninvolved.

+4 letters: involvement, noninvolved, overvaluing, overviolent.

+5 letters: convulsively, innovatively, interinvolve, involvements.