involved

/ɪnˈvɒlvd//ɪnˈvɑlvd/

verb

  1. 1

    To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

  2. 2

    To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.

    to involve in darkness or obscurity
  3. 3

    To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

  4. 4

    To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

  5. 5

    To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.

  6. 6

    To envelop, enfold, entangle.

    He's involved in the crime.
  7. 7

    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.
  8. 8

    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

adjective

  1. 1

    Complicated.

    He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.
  2. 2

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

    He got involved in a bar fight.
  3. 3

    Having an affair with someone.

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