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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Involve \In*volve"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Involved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Involving}.] [L. involvere, involutum, to roll about, wrap up; pref. in- in + volvere to roll: cf. OF. involver. See {Voluble}, and cf. {Involute}.]
1. To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
Some of serpent kind . . . involved Their snaky folds. --Milton.
2. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
And leave a sing['e]d bottom all involved With stench and smoke. --Milton.
3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure. ''Involved discourses.'' --Locke.
4. To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
He knows His end with mine involved. --Milton.
The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction. --Tillotson.
5. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge. [R.]
The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast involuntary throng. --Pope.
Earth with hell To mingle and involve. --Milton.
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. ''Involved in a deep study.'' --Sir W. Scott.
8. (Math.) 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.
Syn: To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle; embarrass; overwhelm.
Usage: To {Involve}, {Imply}. Imply is opposed to express, or set forth; thus, an implied engagement is one fairly to be understood from the words used or the circumstances of the case, though not set forth in form. Involve goes beyond the mere interpretation of things into their necessary relations; and hence, if one thing involves another, it so contains it that the two must go together by an indissoluble connection. War, for example, involves wide spread misery and death; the premises of a syllogism involve the conclusion.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Involved \In*volved"\, adjective (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Involute}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
involved
adjective
1: connected by participation or association or use; "we accomplished nothing, simply because of the large number of people involved"; "the problems involved"; "the involved muscles"; "I don't want to get involved"; "everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified" [ant: {uninvolved}]
2: entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion" [syn: {mired}]
3: emotionally involved [syn: {involved with(p)}]
4: highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" [syn: {Byzantine}, {convoluted}, {intricate}, {knotty}, {labyrinthine}, {tangled}, {tortuous}]
5: enveloped; "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
189 Moby Thesaurus words for "involved": Byzantine, a party to, absorbed, absorbed in, accessory, accused, active, affected, affiliate, affiliated, allied, arraignable, arraigned, associate, associated, assumed, at fault, balled up, biased, blamed, bound, bound up with, bracketed, burdened with debt, buried in, caught up in, censurable, charged, cited, collateral, complex, complicated, comprehended, comprised, concerned, confounded, confused, confusing, conjugate, connected, contemplating, contemplative, convoluted, correlated, coupled, covered, crabbed, criminal, culpable, daedal, deep in debt, denounced, devious, devoted, devoted to, elaborate, embarrassed, embraced, embrangled, encompassed, encumbered, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, enmeshed, entangled, envisaged, faulty, fouled up, gordian, guilty, hinted, immersed in, impeachable, impeached, implicated, implied, impugned, in complicity, in debt, in difficulties, in embarrassed circumstances, in hock, in the hole, in the red, included, incriminated, inculpated, indebted, indicated, indictable, indicted, inferred, influenced, intent, intent on, interested, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimated, intricate, involuted, joined, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, linked, lost in, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meant, meditating, meditative, messed up, mixed up, monomaniacal, monopolized, mortgaged, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, obsessed, occupied, of that ilk, of that kind, one-sided, parallel, partaking, partial, participant, participating, participative, participatory, partisan, peccant, perplexed, plunged in debt, preoccupied, presumed, presupposed, ramified, related, reprehensible, reproachable, reproached, reprovable, roundabout, screwed up, sharing, single-minded, snarled, sophisticated, spliced, studious, studying, submerged in, subtle, suggested, supposed, swayed, swept up, taken up with, tangled, tangly, tasked, taxed, tied, tied up, to blame, tortuous, totally absorbed, twinned, twisted, under attack, under fire, undetached, undispassionate, unneutral, warped, wed, wedded, wrapped in, wrapped up in, yoked
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