Involve

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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

II. Involve ·vt To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

III. Involve ·vt To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.

IV. Involve ·vt To roll or fold up; to wind round; to Entwine.

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

VI. Involve ·vt To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to Imply.

VII. Involve ·vt 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.

VIII. Involve ·vt To envelop completely; to Surround; to Cover; to Hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.