involve
Verbs
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(v) connect closely and often incriminatingly
- This new ruling affects your business
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(v) engage as a participant
- Don't involve me in your family affairs!
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(v) have as a necessary feature
- This decision involves many changes
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(v) 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
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(v) contain as a part
- Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses
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(v) occupy or engage the interest of
- His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon
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(v) make complex or intricate or complicated
- The situation was rather involved