INVOLVE, v.t. involv'. [L. involvo; in and volvo, to roll, Eng. to wallow.] 1. To envelop; to cover with surrounding matter; as, to involve one in smoke or dust.2. To envelop in any thing which exists on all sides; as, to involve in darkness or obscurity.3. To imply; to comprise. To be and not to be at the same time, involves a contradiction.4. To entwist; to join; to connect. He knows his end with mine involved.5. To take in; to catch; to conjoin. The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast involuntary throng.6. To entangle. Let not our enemy involve the nation in war, nor our imprudence involve us in difficulty.7. To plunge; to overwhelm. Extravagance often involves men in debt and distress.8. To inwrap; to infold; to complicate or make intricate. Some involved their snaky folds. Florid, witty, involved discourses.9. To blend; to mingle confusedly. 10. In algebra, to raise a quantity from the root to any assigned power; as a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.
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