involve

Verb
  1. Connect closely and often incriminatingly (synset 202682907)
    "This new ruling affects your business"
    is a type of: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on - be relevant to
    subtypes: implicate - bring into intimate and incriminating connection
    same as: affect, regard
  2. Engage as a participant (synset 202683377)
    "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"
    is a type of: admit, include, let in - allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of
    subtypes:
  3. Have as a necessary feature (synset 202642216)
    "This decision involves many changes"
    is a type of: feature, have - have as a feature
    subtypes: carry - be necessarily associated with or result in or involve
    same as: imply
  4. Require as useful, just, or proper (synset 202634015)
    "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
    subtypes:
    • claim, exact, take - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
    • govern - require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood
    • draw - require a specified depth for floating
    • cost - require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
    • cry for, cry out for - need badly or desperately
    • compel - necessitate or exact
    same as: ask, call for, demand, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take
    verb group: claim, exact, take - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
  5. Contain as a part (synset 202639299)
    "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
    is a type of: include - have as a part, be made up out of
  6. Occupy or engage the interest of (synset 200602119)
    "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
    is a type of: absorb, engage, engross, occupy - consume all of one's attention or time
  7. Make complex or intricate or complicated (synset 200402444)
    "The situation was rather involved"
    is a type of: complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine - make more complex, intricate, or richer

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