involve
/ɪnˈvɑlv/ verb B1- To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include. · My job involves forecasting economic trends.
- To include (something) as a logical or natural, or necessary component, or consequence or effect of something else; to entail, to imply.
- To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation. · By involving herself in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live.· How can we involve the audience more during the show?
- Chiefly followed by with: to engage (someone or oneself) in an emotional or sexual relationship.
- To entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); especially, to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation. · to involve a person in debt or misery
Plural involve · He/she/it involves · Past involved · Past participle involved · -ing form involving
Verb forms
- Base form
- involve
- He/she/it
- involves
- Past
- involved
- Past participle
- involved
- -ing form
- involving
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It happened that at the moment I was clearing up the case which my friend Watson has described as that of the Abbey School, in which the Duke of Greyminster was so deeply involved.
Clearly my poor friend had become involved in some criminal, or, at the least, disreputable, transaction which touched the family honour.
The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.
Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland--adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like those of actual life.
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