involved
/ɪnˈvɒlvd/
Dictionary
verb
- To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
- To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
"to involve in darkness or obscurity"
- To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
- To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
- To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
- To envelop, enfold, entangle.
"He's involved in the crime."
- 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."
- 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
- Complicated.
"He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895."
- Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
"He got involved in a bar fight."
- Having an affair with someone.
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