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in·volve

(ĭn-vŏlv′)

tr.v. in·volved, in·volv·ing, in·volves

a. To have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail: was told that the job would involve travel.

b. To relate to or affect: The matter is serious because it involves your reputation.

c. To cause to burn; spread to: The blaze involved the house next door.

a. To engage as a participant; embroil: The bystanders got involved in a dispute with the police.

b. To show to be a participant; connect or implicate: evidence that involved the governor in the scandal.

c. To engage (oneself) in a love affair: was involved with a colleague at work.

3. To occupy or engage the interest of: a story that completely involved me for the rest of the evening.

4. To wrap; envelop: a castle that was involved in mist.

5. Archaic To wind or coil about.

[Middle English involven, from Latin involvere, to enwrap : in-, in; see in-² + volvere, to roll, turn; see wel- in Indo-European roots.]

in·volve′ment n.

in·volv′er n.

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involve

(ɪnˈvɒlv)

vb (tr)

1. to include or contain as a necessary part: the task involves hard work.

2. to have an effect on; spread to: the investigation involved many innocent people.

3. (often passive; usually foll by in or with) to concern or associate significantly: many people were involved in the crime.

4. (often passive) to make complicated; tangle: the situation was further involved by her disappearance.

5. rare often poetic to wrap or surround

6. (Mathematics) maths obsolete to raise to a specified power

[C14: from Latin involvere to roll in, surround, from in-² + volvere to roll]

inˈvolvement n

inˈvolver n

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in•volve

(ɪnˈvɒlv)

v.t. -volved, -volv•ing.

1. to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours.

2. to engage or employ.

3. to include within itself or its scope.

4. to bring into an intricate or complicated form or condition.

5. to cause to be troublesomely associated, as in something embarrassing or unfavorable: Don't involve me in your quarrel!

6. to combine inextricably (usu. fol. by with).

7. to implicate, as in guilt or crime, or in any matter or affair.

8. to engage the interests or emotions or commitment of.

9. to envelop or enfold, as if with a wrapping.

10.

a. Archaic. to roll, surround, or shroud, as in a wrapping.

b. to roll up on itself; coil.

[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin involvere to roll up, wrap up, envelop =in- in-² + volvere to roll]

in•volve′ment, n.

involve

- First meant "enfold, surround, wrap."

involve

Past participle: involved
Gerund: involving

Imperative
involve
involve

Present
I involve
you involve
he/she/it involves
we involve
you involve
they involve

Preterite
I involved
you involved
he/she/it involved
we involved
you involved
they involved

Present Continuous
I am involving
you are involving
he/she/it is involving
we are involving
you are involving
they are involving

Present Perfect
I have involved
you have involved
he/she/it has involved
we have involved
you have involved
they have involved

Past Continuous
I was involving
you were involving
he/she/it was involving
we were involving
you were involving
they were involving

Past Perfect
I had involved
you had involved
he/she/it had involved
we had involved
you had involved
they had involved

Future
I will involve
you will involve
he/she/it will involve
we will involve
you will involve
they will involve

Future Perfect
I will have involved
you will have involved
he/she/it will have involved
we will have involved
you will have involved
they will have involved

Future Continuous
I will be involving
you will be involving
he/she/it will be involving
we will be involving
you will be involving
they will be involving

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been involving
you have been involving
he/she/it has been involving
we have been involving
you have been involving
they have been involving

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been involving
you will have been involving
he/she/it will have been involving
we will have been involving
you will have been involving
they will have been involving

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been involving
you had been involving
he/she/it had been involving
we had been involving
you had been involving
they had been involving

Conditional
I would involve
you would involve
he/she/it would involve
we would involve
you would involve
they would involve

Past Conditional
I would have involved
you would have involved
he/she/it would have involved
we would have involved
you would have involved
they would have involved

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Verb	1.	involve - connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business" affect, regard concern, have to do with, pertain, bear on, come to, touch on, refer, relate, touch - be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" implicate - bring into intimate and incriminating connection; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government"
	2.	involve - engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!" let in, admit, include - allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar" drag in, embroil, sweep up, tangle, drag, sweep - force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" entangle, mire - entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past"
	3.	involve - have as a necessary feature; "This decision involves many changes" imply feature, have - have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France" carry - be necessarily associated with or result in or involve; "This crime carries a penalty of five years in prison"
	4.	involve - require as useful, just, or proper; "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" necessitate, need, require, call for, demand, postulate, ask, take exact, claim, take - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" govern - require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood; "most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German" draw - require a specified depth for floating; "This boat draws 70 inches" cost - require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice; "This mistake cost him his job" cry for, cry out for - need badly or desperately; "This question cries out for an answer" compel - necessitate or exact; "the water shortage compels conservation"
	5.	involve - contain as a part; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses" include - have as a part, be made up out of; "The list includes the names of many famous writers"
	6.	involve - occupy or engage the interest of; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon" engage, engross, occupy, absorb - consume all of one's attention or time; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely"
	7.	involve - make complex or intricate or complicated; "The situation was rather involved" rarify, refine, complicate, elaborate - make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"

involve

verb

1. entail, mean, demand, require, call for, occasion, result in, imply, give rise to, encompass, necessitate Running a kitchen involves a great deal of discipline and speed.

2. include, contain, take in, embrace, cover, incorporate, draw in, comprise of, number among The cover-up involved people at the very highest level.

3. implicate, tangle, mix up, embroil, link, entangle, incriminate, mire, stitch up (slang), enmesh, inculpate (formal) I seem to have involved myself in something I don't understand.

4. concern, draw in, associate, connect, bear on He started involving me in the more confidential aspects of the job.

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involve

verb

1. To have as a part:

comprehend, comprise, contain, embody, embrace, encompass, have, include, subsume, take in.

2. To have as an accompaniment, a condition, or a consequence:

carry, entail.

3. To have as a need or prerequisite:

ask, call for, demand, entail, necessitate, require, take.

4. To draw in so that extrication is difficult:

catch up, embrangle, embroil, implicate, mix up, suck.

5. To get and hold the attention of:

engage, occupy.

6. To make complex, intricate, or perplexing:

complicate, embarrass, entangle, perplex, ravel, snarl, tangle.

Translations

يَشْتَمِل علىيُشْرِك ، يَزُجُّ في ، يُوَرِّطيَشْمَلُ

mít stykplést sevyžadovatzahrnovat

involveremedføreinddrage

beteiligen einschließen verwickeln

εμπλέκω

suponer traer consigo involucrar mezclar complicar

haaratud olema

kuulua mukaan

empêtrer entortiller impliquer mêler nécessiter

uključivati

jár

blanda í, flækjast íhafa í för meî sér

coinvolgere comportare implicare

伴う

필연적으로 포함하다

būt saistītamiepītiesaistītietvert

betrekken

bli blandet inn i involvere

zaangażować

envolver elevar

влечь вовлекать охватывать путать

zapliesť sazapojiť

biti vpletenvplesti

involvera

เข้าไปมีส่วนร่วม

bulaşmakdahil etmek gerektirmekkarışmak

dính líu

使卷入涉及牵连需要

involve

[ɪnˈvɒlv] VT

1. (= implicate, associate) → implicar, involucrar
a dispute involving a friend of mine → una disputa en la que estaba implicado or involucrado un amigo mío
a crash involving three vehicles → una colisión en la que se vieron envueltos tres vehículos
to involve sb (in sth) → involucrar a algn (en algo)
we would prefer not to involve the children → preferiríamos no meter or involucrar a los niños
they are trying to involve him in the theft → están intentando implicarlo or involucrarlo en el robo
try to involve him in your leisure activities → intenta hacer que participe contigo en tus actividades de tiempo libre
it may involve you in extra cost → puede acarrearle costos adicionales
the persons involved (gen) → los interesados; (= culprits) → los implicados
to be involved (in sth) how did he come to be involved? → ¿cómo llegó a meterse en esto?
he was involved in a fight → se vio envuelto en una pelea
he/his car was involved in an accident → él/su coche se vio involucrado en un accidente
she was only involved in the final stages of the project → sólo tomó parte en las fases finales del proyecto
I was so involved in my book that → estaba tan absorto en el libro que ...
to become or get involved (in sth) the police became involved → la policía tomó cartas en el asunto
I don't want to get involved → no quiero meterme
to get involved in a fight → verse envuelto en una pelea
to be/become/get involved with sth/sb she's so involved with the project she doesn't have time for me → está tan liada con el proyecto que no tiene tiempo para mí, el proyecto la absorbe tanto que no tiene tiempo para mí
she became involved with the resistance movement → se involucró en el movimiento de resistencia
she got involved with some really weird people → se mezcló con una gente muy rara
she likes him but she doesn't want to get involved → él le gusta, pero no quiere comprometerse

2. (= entail, imply) → suponer
it involved a lot of expense → supuso or acarreó muchos gastos
there's a good deal of work involved → supone or implica bastante trabajo
the job involves moving to London → el trabajo requiere que se traslade a Londres
what does your job involve? → ¿en qué consiste su trabajo?
how much money is involved? → ¿cuánto dinero hay en juego?
a question of principle is involved → aquí hay principios en juego

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involve

[ɪnˈvɒlv] vt

(= require) → impliquer
His job involves a lot of travelling → Son travail implique de nombreux déplacements.

to involve sb in sth [+ activity, meeting, process] → associer qn à qch; [+ task, work] → associer qn à qch; [+ quarrel, unpleasant situation, trouble] → impliquer qn dans qch
Did you have to involve me in this? → Tu étais obligé de m'impliquer là-dedans?
to involve sb in decision-making → associer qn à la prise de décision
More women should be involved in decision-making → Plus de femmes devraient être associées à la prise de décision.

(= entail) → impliquer
What does it involve, exactly? → Qu'est-ce que cela implique exactement?

(= concern) → concerner

(= have participating) → impliquer
a riot involving a hundred inmates → une émeute impliquant une centaine de détenus

involve

(= entangle) → verwickeln (→ sb in sth jdn in etw acc); (= include) → beteiligen (→ sb in sth jdn an etw dat); (= concern) → betreffen; to involve somebody in a quarrel → jdn in einen Streit verwickeln or hineinziehen; to involve somebody in expense → jdm Kosten verursachen; the book doesn’t involve the reader → das Buch fesselt or packt den Leser nicht; it wouldn’t involve you at all → du hättest damit gar nichts zu tun; to be involved in something → etwas mit etw zu tun haben; (= have part in also) → an etw (dat) → beteiligt sein; (in sth bad also) → in etw (acc) → verwickelt sein; to get involved in something → in etw (acc) → verwickelt werden; in quarrel, crime etc also → in etw (acc) → hineingezogen werden; to involve oneself in something → sich in etw (dat) → engagieren; to involve oneself in politics → sich politisch engagieren; I didn’t want to get involved → ich wollte damit/mit ihm etc nichts zu tun haben; I didn’t want to get too involved → ich wollte mich nicht zu sehr engagieren; a matter of principle is involved → es ist eine Frage des Prinzips, es geht ums Prinzip; the person involved → die betreffende Person; we are all involved in the battle against inflation → der Kampf gegen die Inflation geht uns alle an; to be/get involved with something → etwas mit etw zu tun haben; (= have part in) → an etw (dat) → beteiligt sein; with work etc → mit etw beschäftigt sein; he got involved with local politics → er hat sich lokalpolitisch engagiert; to be involved with somebody → mit jdm zu tun haben; (sexually) → mit jdm ein Verhältnis haben; to be romantically involved (with somebody) → eine Liebesbeziehung (zu jdm) haben; he’s very involved with her → er hat sich bei ihr sehr stark engagiert; he’s involved with some shady characters → er hat Umgang mit einigen zwielichtigen Gestalten; to get involved with somebody → mit jdm Kontakt bekommen, sich mit jdm einlassen (pej); I don’t want to get involved with them → ich will mit ihnen nichts zu tun haben; he got involved with a girl → er hat eine Beziehung mit einem Mädchen angefangen

(= entail) → mit sich bringen, zur Folge haben; (= encompass) → umfassen; (= mean) → bedeuten; what does the job involve? → worin besteht die Arbeit?; this problem involves many separate issues → dieses Problem umfasst viele verschiedene Punkte or schließt viele verschiedene Punkte ein; to involve considerable expense/a lot of hard work → beträchtliche Kosten/viel Arbeit mit sich bringen or zur Folge haben; such a project involves considerable planning → zu so einem Projekt gehört eine umfangreiche Planung; will the post involve much foreign travel? → ist der Posten mit vielen Auslandsreisen verbunden?; he doesn’t understand what’s involved in this sort of work → er weiß nicht, worum es bei dieser Arbeit geht; do you realize what’s involved in raising a family? → weißt du denn, was es bedeutet, eine Familie großzuziehen?; about £1,000 was involved → es ging dabei um etwa £ 1.000; the job involved 50 workmen → für die Arbeit wurden 50 Arbeiter gebraucht; it would involve moving to Germany → das würde bedeuten, nach Deutschland umzuziehen; finding the oil involved the use of a special drill → um das Öl zu finden, brauchte man einen Spezialbohrer

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involve

[ɪnˈvɒlv] vt

a. (associate) → coinvolgere; (implicate) → implicare, coinvolgere
to be/become involved in sth → essere/rimanere coinvolto/a in qc
to involve o.s./sb in sth (politics) → impegnarsi/coinvolgere qn in qc
don't involve me in your quarrels! → non tiratemi in mezzo alle vostre beghe!
don't involve yourself in unnecessary expense → non metterti a fare spese inutili
how did he come to be involved? → come ha fatto a trovarcisi in mezzo?
the factors involved → i fattori in causa or in gioco
the persons involved → le persone in questione or coinvolte
to feel involved → sentirsi coinvolto/a
to become or get involved with sb (socially) → legarsi a qn (emotionally) → legarsi sentimentalmente a qn

b. (entail) → implicare, comportare
it involves a lot of expense/trouble → comporta un mucchio di spese/difficoltà

involve

(inˈvolv) verb

1. to require; to bring as a result. His job involves a lot of travelling.

2. (often with in or with) to cause to take part in or to be mixed up in. He has always been involved in/with the theatre; Don't ask my advice – I don't want to be/get involved.

inˈvolved adjective

complicated. My time-table for Friday is becoming very involved.

inˈvolvement noun

involve

→ يَشْمَلُ zahrnovat involvere beteiligen εμπλέκω involucrar kuulua mukaan impliquer uključivati coinvolgere 伴う 필연적으로 포함하다 betrekken involvere zaangażować envolver вовлекать involvera เข้าไปมีส่วนร่วม dahil etmek dính líu 涉及

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