to involve
- verb
- /ɪnˈvɑlv/
- Organizing the event will involve coordinating with several vendors and managing schedules.
- processes involved
- complexities involved
- tasks involved
Examples
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Teachers and other school staff were involved in the program in numerous ways (Table 3).
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It involves plays of Eurodollars against oil shipments.
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So was there also a legal battle involved with with this process?
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What is the inner work involved that helps women?
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And it involves me and my magic book.
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But none of these involve cooperation in production.
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Anything which involves those kinds of tasks?
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Very few are simple, and the majority involve multiple issues that are not always strictly copyright-related.
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All stakeholders, including secondary students, can be involved in identifying and applying appropriate expectations for schools.
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The website is an excellent resource for anyone involved in emergency response strategies or fields related to oceanography.
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Synonyms
To make something harder to understand or do
To involve someone in a difficult situation, often without meaning to
Involve someone in a difficult situation they cannot easily get out of
Make something harder than it needs to be
To make something tangled and difficult to understand
Antonyms
How Complicated
Surface Forms
Morphology
involve = in + volve
Opaque because the root 'volve' is not a standalone English word and the Latin prefix 'in-' does not yield a transparently compositional meaning for typical learners.
Etymology
Involve comes from Latin in- 'in' and volvere 'to roll', the same root as revolve. Think of ideas or steps being 'rolled together' until they are wrapped up and hard to separate. So, to involve something can be to make it more complex or tangled.