meaning of involve
1. To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
2. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
4. To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
5. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
6. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.
7. To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
8. 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.
9. make complex or intricate or complicated; "The situation was rather
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