1.  involve(v = verb.stative) affect, regard - connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"
is one way to bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on
Derived form noun involvement₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something

2.  involve(v = verb.stative) - engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"
is one way to admit, include, let in
Derived forms noun involution₄, noun involvement₁, noun involvement₅
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP

3.  involve(v = verb.stative) imply - have as a necessary feature; "This decision involves many changes"
is one way to feature, have
Derived form noun involvement₂
Sample sentences: Something ----s something

4.  involve(v = verb.stative) ask, call for, demand, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take - 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"
Sample sentences: Something ----s something

5.  involve(v = verb.stative) - contain as a part; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
is one way to include
Sample sentences: Something ----s something

6.  involve(v = verb.cognition) - occupy or engage the interest of; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
is one way to absorb, engage, engross, occupy
Derived form noun involvement₃
Sample sentences: Something ----s somebody

7.  involve(v = verb.change) - make complex or intricate or complicated; "The situation was rather involved"
is one way to complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

1.  To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine. [1913 Webster]
"Some of serpent kind . . . involved
Their snaky folds." [1913 Webster]

2.  To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity. [1913 Webster]
"And leave a singèd bottom all involved
With stench and smoke." [1913 Webster]

3.  To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure. Locke. [1913 Webster]

4.  To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply. [1913 Webster]
"He knows
His end with mine involved." [1913 Webster]
"The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction." [1913 Webster]

5.  To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge. [1913 Webster]
"The gathering number, as it moves along,
Involves a vast involuntary throng." [1913 Webster]
"Earth with hell
To mingle and involve." [1913 Webster]

6.  To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery. [1913 Webster]

7.  To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]

8.  To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.

involve, v.tr.
1 (often foll. by in) cause (a person or thing) to participate, or share the experience or effect (in a situation, activity, etc.).
2 imply, entail, make necessary.
3 (foll. by in) implicate (a person in a charge, crime, etc.).
4 include or affect in its operations.
5 (as involved adj.) a (often foll. by in) concerned or interested. b complicated in thought or form.

Etymology:
ME f. L involvere involut- (as IN-(2), volvere roll)

VB  be composed of, be made of, be formed of, be made up of, consist of, be resolved into, include, contain, hold, comprehend, take in, admit, embrace, embody, involve, implicate, drag into, compose, constitute, form, make, make up, fill up, build up, enter into the composition of.

VB  derange, disarrange, misarrange, displace, misplace, mislay, discompose, disorder, deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize, embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble, shuffle, randomize, huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot, bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder, muss, break the ranks, disconcert, convulse, break in upon, unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear, turn topsy-turvy, bedevil, complicate, involve, perplex, confound, imbrangle, embrangle, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle, dishevel, ruffle, rumple, litter, scatter, mix, rearrange.

VB  invest, cover, envelope, lap, involve, inwrap, enwrap, wrap, fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up, overlap, sheath, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumvest, vest, clothe, array, dress, dight, drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accounter, rig, fit out, deck, perk, equip, harness, caparison, wear, don, put on, huddle on, slip on, mantle.

VB  be evidence, evince, show, betoken, tell of, indicate, imply, involve, argue, bespeak, breathe, have weight, carry weight, tell, speak volumes, speak for itself, rest upon, depend upon, repose on, bear witness, give evidence, testify, depose, witness, vouch for, sign, seal, undersign, set one's hand and seal, sign and seal, deliver as one's act and deed, certify, attest, acknowledge, make absolute, confirm, prove (demonstrate), indorse, countersign, corroborate, support, ratify, bear out, uphold, warrant, adduce, attest, cite, quote, refer to, appeal to, call, call to witness, bring forward, bring into court, allege, plead, produce witnesses, confront witnesses, place into evidence, mark into evidence, collect evidence, bring together evidence, rake up evidence, experiment, have a case, make out a case, establish, authenticate, substantiate, verify, make good, quote chapter and verse, bring home to, bring to book.

VB  mean, signify, express, import, purport, convey, imply, breathe, indicate, bespeak, bear a sense, tell of, speak of, touch on, point to, allude to, drive at, involve, declare, understand by.

VB  be latent, lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign, escape observation, escape detection, escape recognition, lie hid, laugh in one's sleeve, keep back, involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference, entail, whisper, read between the lines.