Meaning & Definition of Involve in English

1. Connect closely and often incriminatingly

• "This new ruling affects your business"

2. Engage as a participant

• "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"

3. Have as a necessary feature

• "This decision involves many changes"

4. Require as useful, just, or proper

• "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"

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"