involved Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb connect closely and often incriminatingly
involve; affect; regard.
- This new ruling affects your business
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verb engage as a participant
involve.
- Don't involve me in your family affairs!
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verb have as a necessary feature
involve; imply.
- This decision involves many changes
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verb require as useful, just, or proper
call for; require; necessitate; involve; need; take; demand; ask; postulate.
- 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
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verb contain as a part
involve.
- Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses
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verb occupy or engage the interest of
involve.
- His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon
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verb make complex or intricate or complicated
involve.
- The situation was rather involved
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adjective 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
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adjective satellite entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
mired.
- the difficulties in which the question is involved
- brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion
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adjective satellite emotionally involved
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adjective satellite highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Byzantine; tortuous; tangled; convoluted; knotty.
- the Byzantine tax structure
- Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
- convoluted legal language
- convoluted reasoning
- 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
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adjective satellite enveloped
- a castle involved in mist
- the difficulties in which the question is involved
WordNet
In*volved" adjective
Definitions
(Zoöl.) Same as Involute .