Definition of involve
- v. t. - To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
- v. t. - To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide;
to involve in darkness or obscurity.
- v. t. - To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical
structure.
- v. t. - To connect with something as a natural or logical
consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
- v. t. - To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to
blend or merge.
- v. t. - To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to
involve a person in debt or misery.
- v. t. - To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
- v. t. - To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a
quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved
to the third or fourth power.