INVOLVE

vt to engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.

2. involve ·vt to complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

3. involve ·vt to take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.

4. involve ·vt to roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

5. involve ·vt to envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

6. involve ·vt to connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

7. involve ·vt 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.

8. involve ·vt to envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.