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US
/ˌɪnˈvɑɫv/
]
[ UK /ɪnvˈɒlv/ ]
[ UK /ɪnvˈɒlv/ ]
VERB
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engage as a participant
Don't involve me in your family affairs! -
require as useful, just, or proper
It takes nerve to do what she did
This job asks a lot of patience and skill
success usually requires hard work
This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert
This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent
This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice -
have as a necessary feature
This decision involves many changes -
occupy or engage the interest of
His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon -
make complex or intricate or complicated
The situation was rather involved -
connect closely and often incriminatingly
This new ruling affects your business -
contain as a part
Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses
How To Use involve In A Sentence
- I think it's certainly quite a lot of the comedy that I've been involved in is quite extreme, if you like, and the extremity is part of what's funny about it.
- The model nature of Windsor involved imitation, as of the Tudor style, to make a statement with a lot of leisure about it.
- And those involved are pretty small: a few degrees between cooler land and warmer ocean at night, a few tens of degrees between tropics and poles. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
- There's a lot of ballyhoo involved in getting a taxi in this country.
- These will involve more rigorous checks on claimants to make sure their disability qualifies. The Sun
- Consider some of the specific encounters Blue has with women Gareth is involved with. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl: Questions
- The decision to escalate UN involvement has been taken in the hopes of a swift end to the hostilities.
- Much investigative journalism involves some form of subterfuge. Times, Sunday Times
- Christie was involved in an angry bust-up with reporters and photographers outside the courtroom.
- Making a flip book involves using the corner of a sketch pad to illustrate individual still frames of cartoon movement.