# involve

Pronunciation: US say "in-VAHLV" /ɪnˈvɑlv/; UK say "in-VOLV" /ɪnˈvɒlv/

## Verb

1. To contain something as one of its parts or as an element connected to it.
   - Simple: To have or include something as a part.
   - _The renovation will involve replacing the roof and updating the wiring._
   - _Her research involves extensive fieldwork in remote regions._
2. To carry with it something that follows logically, naturally, or necessarily as a part or result.
   - Simple: To bring something with it as a necessary part or result.
   - _Free speech necessarily involves the risk of giving offense._
   - _Any cut in spending will involve hard choices about which programs survive._
3. To draw someone or something into an activity or situation, so that they take part in it or become connected or implicated.
   - Simple: To bring someone into an activity or situation and make them take part.
   - _Organizers hope to involve local residents in planning the new park._
   - _Detectives suspect he involved his brother in the cover-up._
4. To engage someone or oneself in an emotional or sexual relationship, typically with the preposition with.
   - Simple: To bring someone, or yourself, into a romantic or sexual relationship.
   - _She vowed never again to involve herself with someone from work._
   - _Against his friends' advice, he involved himself with his business partner's sister._
5. To entangle, intertwine, or mingle things together; especially, to entangle someone or something in a confusing or troublesome situation.
   - Simple: To twist things together in a confusing way, or to pull someone into a difficult situation.
   - _The merger involved the company in a web of regulatory disputes._
   - _He was careful not to involve his finances with his brother's failing business._

## Verb

6. To enclose something on all sides, completely covering, surrounding, or concealing it. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: To cover or wrap something completely so it cannot be seen.
   - _Darkness involved the valley long before the travelers reached the inn._
   - _Clouds descended to involve the summit in an impenetrable gray._
7. To roll or fold something up, twist it into a coil or spiral, or wind it around something else. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: To wind or roll something around into rings or folds.
   - _The serpent involved its length around the marble pillar._
   - _Tendrils of ivy began to involve the iron railings of the garden._
8. To make something intricate or tangled in form or meaning; to complicate it. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To make something complicated or hard to understand.
   - _Each new amendment involved the statute further, until even judges despaired of reading it._
   - _Commentators managed to involve the poet's plain meaning in endless subtleties._
9. In mathematics, to raise a number to a given power by multiplying it by itself the required number of times. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To multiply a number by itself a certain number of times.
   - _Early arithmetic textbooks asked pupils to involve given roots to the fifth or sixth power._
   - _The algebraist involved the binomial to the seventh power by repeated multiplication._

## Origin

From Late Middle English involven, borrowed from Old French involver or directly from Latin involvere ('to roll upon, wrap up, envelop, overwhelm'). The Latin verb combines the prefix in- ('in, within') with volvo ('to roll, tumble'), which ultimately goes back to Proto-Indo-European *welH- ('to turn, to wind').

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