<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>used with object</li><li>to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail</li><li>This job involves long hours and hard work.</li><li>Synonyms: demand, require, necessitate</li><li>to engage or employ</li><li>to affect, as something within the scope of operation</li><li>to include, contain, or comprehend within itself or its scope</li><li>to bring into an intricate or complicated form or condition</li><li>to bring into difficulties (usually followed by with): The investigation discovered a plot to involve one nation in a war with another.</li><li>to cause to be troublesomely associated or concerned, as in something embarrassing or unfavorable: Don't involve me in your quarrel!</li><li>Antonyms: extricate</li><li>to combine inextricably (usually followed by with)</li><li>to implicate, as in guilt or crime, or in any matter or affair</li><li>to engage the interests or emotions or commitment of: The professor involved many students in the disarmament movement.</li><li>Her husband became involved with another woman.</li><li>to preoccupy or absorb fully (usually used passively or reflexively): You are much too involved with the problem to see it clearly.</li><li>to envelop or enfold, as if with a wrapping</li><li>to swallow up, engulf, or overwhelm</li><li>Archaic: to roll, surround, or shroud, as in a wrapping</li><li>to roll up on itself; wind spirally; coil; wreathe</li></ul>