Usually means: To include as a necessary part.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word involve:

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  1. involve: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. involve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. involve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. involve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. involve: Vocabulary.com
  6. Involve, involve: Wordnik
  7. involve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. involve: Wiktionary
  9. involve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. involve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. involve: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. involve: Dictionary.com
  13. involve: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. involve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. INVOLVE (UK National Advisory group), Involve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Involve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. involve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. involve: Rhymezone
  19. involve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. involve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. involve: Free Dictionary
  22. involve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. involve: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. involve: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. involve: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. involve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. involve: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. involve: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include.
verb:  (specifically) To include (something) as a logical or natural, or necessary component, or consequence or effect of something else; to entail, to imply.
verb:  To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.
verb:  (specifically, also reflexive, chiefly passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to engage (someone or oneself) in an emotional or sexual relationship.
verb:  (figuratively) To entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); especially, to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation.
verb:  (archaic)
verb:  To cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround.
verb:  To form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds; to entwine, to fold up, to roll, to wind round.
verb:  (archaic or obsolete)
verb:  To make (something) intricate; to complicate.
verb:  (mathematics) To multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times; to raise to any assigned power.

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