involves

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”