verb
- Connect closely and often incriminatingly.
- usage: "This new ruling affects your business"
- Engage as a participant.
- usage: "Don't involve me in your family affairs"
- Have as a necessary feature.
- usage: "This decision involves many changes"
- synonyms: imply
- Require as useful, just, or proper.
- usage: "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"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
- Contain as a part.
- usage: "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
- Occupy or engage the interest of.
- usage: "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
- Make complex or intricate or complicated.
- usage: "The situation was rather involved"
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