involve
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
involve (involves, present participle involving; past and past participle involved)
- (archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Some of serpent kind […] involved
Their snaky folds.
- (archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
- to involve in darkness or obscurity
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.
- 1697, John Dryden translating Virgil, The Aeneid
- Black vapors, issuing from the vent, involve the sky.
- To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242 ↗:
- the fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or involved discourses.
- (archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II
- He knows / His end with mine involved.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, Sermon
- The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II
- To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
- 1728-1743, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
- The gathering number, as it moves along,
Involves a vast involuntary throng.
- The gathering number, as it moves along,
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II
- Earth with hell / To mingle and involve.
- 1728-1743, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
- To envelop, enfold, entangle.
- to involve a person in debt or misery
- He's involved in the crime.
- To engage (someone) to participate in a task.
- How can we involve the audience more during the show?
- By getting involved in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live.
- 1814 July 6, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. In Three Volumes, volume (
please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598 ↗: - {quote-meta/quote
- (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
- a quantity involved to the third or fourth power
- Russian: обёртывать
- Spanish: envolver
- Portuguese: envolver
- Russian: оку́тывать
- Russian: запу́тывать
- French: collaborer
- Russian: каса́ться
- Spanish: envolverse con
- Russian: включа́ть
- Portuguese: envolver
- Portuguese: elevar
- Russian: возводи́ть в сте́пень
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