involved

  • (verb): To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
  • (verb): To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
  • (verb): To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
  • (verb): To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
  • (verb): To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
  • (verb): To envelop, enfold, entangle.
  • (verb): To engage (someone) to participate in a task.
  • (verb): To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
  • (adjective): Complicated.
  • (adjective): Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
  • (adjective): Having an affair with someone.
  • to involve in darkness or obscurity
  • He's involved in the crime.
  • By getting involved in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live.
  • a quantity involved to the third or fourth power
  • He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.