Definition of Involve

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Involve

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.

To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.

To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.

To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.

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Involve Quotations

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Alexander Graham Bell

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
Theodor Geisel

Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
Larry David

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Malcolm Muggeridge

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.
Jennifer Saunders

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Xun Zi

I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships.
Katie Price

Involve Translations

involve in Swedish is involvera

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