INVOLVE, verb transitive involv'. [Latin involvo; in and volvo, to roll, Eng. to wallow.]

1. To envelop; to cover with surrounding matter; as, to involve one in smoke or dust.

2. To envelop in any thing which exists on all sides; as, to involve in darkness or obscurity.

3. To imply; to comprise. To be and not to be at the same time, involves a contradiction.

4. To entwist; to join; to connect.

He knows his end with mine involved.

5. To take in; to catch; to conjoin.

The gathering number, as it moves along,

INVOLVEs a vast involuntary throng.

6. To entangle. Let not our enemy involve the nation in war, nor our imprudence involve us in difficulty.

7. To plunge; to overwhelm. Extravagance often involves men in debt and distress.

8. To inwrap; to infold; to complicate or make intricate.

Some involved their snaky folds.

Florid, witty, involved discourses.

9. To blend; to mingle confusedly.

10. In algebra, to raise a quantity from the root to any assigned power; as a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.