1. (

• involve ,
• affect ,
• regard

) connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business" ;

2. (

• involve ,

) engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!" ;

3. (

• imply ,
• involve

) have as a necessary feature; "This decision involves many changes" ;

4. (

• necessitate ,
• ask ,
• postulate ,
• need ,
• require ,
• take ,
• involve ,
• call_for ,
• demand

) require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" ;

5. (

• involve ,

) contain as a part; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses" ;

6. (

• involve

) occupy or engage the interest of; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon" ;

7. (

• involve

) make complex or intricate or complicated; "The situation was rather involved" ;

1. (

• involved

) connected by participation or association or use; "we accomplished nothing, simply because of the large number of people involved"; "the problems involved"; "the involved muscles"; "I don't want to get involved"; "everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified" ;

2. (

• involved ,
• mired

) entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion" ;

3. (

• involved

) emotionally involved ;

4. (

• Byzantine ,
• convoluted ,
• involved ,
• knotty ,
• tangled ,
• tortuous

) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" ;

5. (

• involved

) enveloped; "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved" ;