• (RP) IPA: /ɪnˈvɒlv/
• (GA) IPA: /ɪnˈvɑlv/

involve (involves, present participle involving; past and past participle involved)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. 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.

4. (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.

5. 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.

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II

     Earth with hell / To mingle and involve.

6. To envelop, enfold, entangle.

   to involve a person in debt or misery

   He's involved in the crime.

7. 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 ↗:

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8. (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

• imply
• include
• implicate
• complicate
• entangle
• embarrass
• overwhelm

• Russian: обёртывать
• Spanish: envolver

• Portuguese: envolver
• Russian: оку́тывать

• Russian: запу́тывать

• French: collaborer
• Russian: каса́ться
• Spanish: envolverse con

• Russian: включа́ть

• Portuguese: envolver

• French: impliquer
• Portuguese: envolver

• Portuguese: elevar
• Russian: возводи́ть в сте́пень