involve

verb transitive

[L. involvo; in and volvo, to roll, Eng. to wallow.]

involv’.

To envelop; to cover with surrounding matter; as, to involve one in smoke or dust.

To envelop in any thing which exists on all sides; as, to involve in darkness or obscurity.

To imply; to comprise. To be and not to be at the same time, involves a contradiction.

To entwist; to join; to connect. He knows his end with mine involved.

To take in; to catch; to conjoin. The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast involuntary throng.

To entangle. Let not our enemy involve the nation in war, nor our imprudence involve us in difficulty: .

To plunge; to overwhelm. Extravagance often involves men in debt and distress.

To inwrap; to infold; to complicate or make intricate. Some involved their snaky folds. Florid, witty, involved discourses.

To blend; to mingle confusedly.

In algebra, to raise a quantity from the root to any assigned power; as a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.