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1. Connect closely and often incriminatingly
   - affect, regard
    
2. Engage as a participant
   "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"
    
3. Have as a necessary feature
   "This decision involves many changes"
   - imply
    
4. Require as useful, just, or proper
   - necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, call for, demand
    
5. Contain as a part
   "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
    
6. Occupy or engage the interest of
   "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
    
7. Make complex or intricate or complicated
   "The situation was rather involved"

Derived forms: involving, involves, involved

See also: involution, involvement

Type of: absorb, admit, bear on, come to, complicate, concern, elaborate, engage, engross, feature, have, have to do with, include, let in, occupy, pertain, rarify, refer, refine, relate, touch, touch on

Encyclopedia: Involve Involve, a Journal of Mathematics