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Involved   /ɪnvˈɑlvd/   Listen
Involved

adjective
1.
Connected by participation or association or use.  "The problems involved" , "The involved muscles" , "I don't want to get involved" , "Everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified"
2.
Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire.  Synonym: mired.  "Brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
3.
Emotionally involved.
4.
Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.  Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, tangled, tortuous.  "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship" , "Convoluted legal language" , "Convoluted reasoning" , "The plot was too involved" , "A knotty problem" , "Got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering" , "Oh, what a tangled web we weave" , "Tortuous legal procedures" , "Tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
5.
Enveloped.  "The difficulties in which the question is involved"


Involve

verb
(past & past part. involved; pres. part. involving)
1.
Connect closely and often incriminatingly.  Synonyms: affect, regard.
2.
Engage as a participant.
3.
Have as a necessary feature.  Synonym: imply.
4.
Require as useful, just, or proper.  Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take.  "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.
6.
Occupy or engage the interest of.
7.
Make complex or intricate or complicated.



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"Involved" Quotes from Famous Books



... day she involved herself in some enterprise from which she could not extricate herself without his help. Billy had to take heavy logs out of her arms, had to lay a plank across the stretch of creek she could not cross, had to help her down from the crotch of a tree ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... greater rights for woman was to a considerable extent merely negative. The aim was to remove barriers and to open the way. It is characteristic of the earlier days of agitation for the removal of wrongs affecting any class, that the questions involved appear to be simple, and easily repeated formulas ample to secure desired rights. Further agitation, however, and more mature reflection always show that what looks like a simple social problem is ...
— Women Wage-Earners - Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future • Helen Campbell
... That's what worried me." All of a sudden, his hearers got a clear idea of what the man had suffered. It was plainly to be detected in his voice. "It might have been a harmless love affair, a flirtation, with letters involved, letters which she thought would distress me if ...
— The Winning Clue • James Hay, Jr.
... at the opening which will show something of the fatigue they involved even at their outset. "On Friday we came from Shrewsbury to Chester; saw all right for the evening; and then went to Liverpool. Came back from Liverpool and read at Chester. Left Chester at 11 at night, after the reading, and went to London. Got to Tavistock House at 5 A.M. on Saturday, left ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... of the sewing machine, and the decision of the great question, Who invented an apparatus that would unite fabrics by stitches? do not at present concern us. Many sources of information are open to those who would decide that extremely involved problem. But whether the production of the first device of this kind be claimed for England or for America, it is quite certain that no one man invented the perfect machine, and that those fine specimens of sewing apparatus shown here to-night embody the labors of many ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 • Various


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