Involve
INVOLVE, verb transitive involv'. [Latin involvo; in and volvo, to roll, Eng. to wallow.]
1. To envelop; to cover with surrounding matter; as, to involve one in smoke or dust.
2. To envelop in any thing which exists on all sides; as, to involve in darkness or obscurity.
3. To imply; to comprise. To be and not to be at the same time, involves a contradiction.
4. To entwist; to join; to connect.
He knows his end with mine involved.
5. To take in; to catch; to conjoin.
The gathering number, as it moves along,
INVOLVEs a vast involuntary throng.
6. To entangle. Let not our enemy involve the nation in war, nor our imprudence involve us in difficulty.
7. To plunge; to overwhelm. Extravagance often involves men in debt and distress.
8. To inwrap; to infold; to complicate or make intricate.
Some involved their snaky folds.
Florid, witty, involved discourses.
9. To blend; to mingle confusedly.
10. In algebra, to raise a quantity from the root to any assigned power; as a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.