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involved

/ɪnˈvɒlvd/

verb

Meaning

  • 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, enfold, entangle.

    "He's involved in the crime."

  • To engage (someone) to participate in a task.

    "By getting involved in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live."

  • 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"

Synonyms

complicate,
embarrass,
entangle,
implicate,
imply,
include,
overwhelm

adjective

Meaning

  • Complicated.

    "He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895."

  • Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)

    "He got involved in a bar fight."

  • Having an affair with someone.