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in·volve
 involve
- pronunciation:
- ihn
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- features:
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
involved, involves, involving |
| definition 1: |
to include as a necessary or inevitable part, condition, or result.
Establishing a new business involves risk.Playing on the team involves a considerable investment of time.The job involves dealing with customers and placing orders.- synonyms:
- entail, imply
- similar words:
- contain, include, mean, presume
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| definition 2: |
to bring into connection or concern with.
She shouldn't have involved this man, whom she hardly knew, in her financial affairs.Please don't involve me in this battle you're having with your mother.- synonyms:
- enmesh, entangle
- antonyms:
- exclude
- similar words:
- concern, embroil, engage, include, interest
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| definition 3: |
to engross; to command the attention of.
Her husband complains that her work involves her completely.He was involved in the game and didn't want to talk on the phone.- synonyms:
- bury, engross, preoccupy, submerse
- similar words:
- absorb, busy, engage, immerse, obsess, occupy
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| definition 4: |
to make difficult or complex.
The client's demands involved the project even more.- synonyms:
- complicate, confound, confuse, entangle, perplex, snarl
- similar words:
- bewilder, embarrass, mix up, obscure
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| definition 5: |
to implicate, as in a crime.
He husband is now involved, and the police are stepping up their investigation.- synonyms:
- connect with, implicate, incriminate
- similar words:
- associate with, frame, inculpate
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| definition 6: |
to affect.
The disease involves the liver. |
| related words: |
comprise, connote, consume, entangle, grip, identify, mire, partake |
| derivations: |
involved (adj.), involvement (n.) |
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