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Involved

[in-volvd]

adjective

very intricate or complex: an involved reply.

implicated: involved in crime.

concerned in some affair, especially in a way likely to cause danger or unpleasantness: I didn't call the police because I didn't want to get involved.

committed or engaged, as in a political cause or artistic movement: The civil rights demonstration attracted the involved young people of the area.

Origin:
1600–10; involve + -ed²

Related forms

in·volv·ed·ly

[in-vol-vid-lee, -volvd-] , adverb

in·volv·ed·ness, noun

non·in·volved, adjective

un·in·volved, adjective

Synonyms
1. complicated, knotty, tangled, perplexing.

Antonyms
1. simple.

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Example Sentences

The other accident involved a sightseeing helicopter carrying seven people, who all survived.

As you move up the administrative ladder, you will become increasingly involved with the world of accreditation.

They are likely to become more involved if video piracy continues to grow, in any case.

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The other accident involved a sightseeing helicopter carrying seven people, who all survived.

As you move up the administrative ladder, you will become increasingly involved with the world of accreditation.

They are likely to become more involved if video piracy continues to grow, in any case.

Barrentos, who was not involved with the research, wrote a commentary published with the study.

Of course, exposure to mercury and other heavy metals is hardly the only risk involved with getting a tattoo.

So even though it is still a negative comment about someone, it isn't directly hurtful to the parties involved in the exchange.

Meatballs are easy to make, and they're a good way to get everyone at the party involved in the cooking.

Areas involved in abstract reasoning and those that process emotions light up.

The reaction underscored the stakes involved in shale gas.

Understand the workings of the publishing community-and get involved.

Those are corporate issues that will be solved over time by the companies involved.

Although the witchdoctor will prepare the medicine, he is not typically involved in harvesting the body parts.

For the first time, scientists have pinpointed an area of the brain involved in a woman's menstrual cycle.

Their missions involved digging ditches, repairing bridges and patching roads.

Meatballs are easy to make, and they're a good way to get everyone at a party involved in the cooking.

He swears he will never be involved in the family business again.

Pai said he was dissatisfied with the job because it involved publishing imported stories.

Candidates must also be involved in service to the university and the profession.

There are three main issues involved in getting an insurance company off the ground.

Find out how the laboratory gathers clues to catch international criminals involved with trafficking animal parts.

There are so many causative factors involved that it makes it difficult to capture the same image twice.

Adams describes his work, which is made from everyday objects, as a call to the viewer to get personally involved with art.

Freezing blackberries isn't difficult, but there are a few techniques involved.

Their difficulty may stem from the tricky finances involved.

Three of the other incidents involved accidental cuts.

The biologists now think that climate change could be involved.

Read articles and op-ed pieces about the various issues involved in protecting this remote ecosystem.

Consequently, there is still much speculation involved in answering this question.

In the early years, it was a pro-labor group that joined protesters in the field but seldom got involved in court battles.

They are involved in lots of education related activities and research.

However, lobbying by the food industry may also have been involved.

And one of its three versions is a strong indicator that the individual involved will develop the disease in later life.

Others, such as selecting the cup that the researcher pointed to, involved social skills such as communication.

Scientists have identified the brain region involved in tracking the spatial relationships between tones in a piece of music.

But that doesn't mean she isn't still involved in it.

There's also a sense of exploration that's involved with science and with music that links them together.

Two of the mutations involved are also known to cause a rare disease called mucolipidosis.

The officers and troopers involved in this sting were seasoned.

One problem with research of this kind is the difficulty involved in controlling potential confounding variables.

They also have meetings and are a great group to get involved with if you are interested in learning about beekeeping.

Home brewing tends to be a deliciously messy and involved process.

But the total number of staff involved in those initial probes is a bare handful.

Most resorts are foreign owned, and few local businesses are involved in coastal tourism.

Researchers have discovered that the same nerve cells involved in forming memories also are involved in replaying them.

My suggestion is to pick one near you, and get involved.

But it now appears that sometimes a localised change in brain activity can be involved.

One way is to find out the parts of the brain involved and to measure brain waves and other markers.

As with anything there is a great deal of chemistry involved in the breakdown of hops in the brewing process.

Whether the shifts result in better service for the customers of the various exchanges involved remains to be seen.

The actual function of the normal huntingtin protein is unknown, but it is believed to be involved in embryonic development.

My main tactic was deception, which involved introducing barley threshing as a new hip party game and some minor child labor.

The case involved a woman charged with casting a spell on her former husband and his sister.

Abby, so sweet to see how involved all the kids are.

Now that the basic technique is free to use, many people expect the price of the equipment and enzymes involved to decline.

But it has fired some of the traders involved for misconduct.

Policemen involved in violent incidents are normally suspended from active duty and given psychological help.

Eisenberg blamed historians' failure to get more involved in public-policy debates partly on changes in the profession.

Certain things of old times still continues in these days also, people involved in true spirit in service of mankind.

Researchers identify protein pathway involved in traumatic brain injury.

Some of the scientists involved in the show were not too pleased with the final product, either.

Few engineering projects have the scope, costs or risks involved in building a new bridge.

Local, state and federal authorities were all involved.

The study team says their genome map will provide new ways for scientists to identify genes involved in disease.

Where to start if you want to get involved in or create your own environmental organization.

No, because they were involved in the whole process.

The federal government should get more involved in the country's degree-completion agenda by creating policies that would allow.

The second reason for gloom is that the trade involved is not a zero-sum game.

The answer lies at the back of the brain in an area called the cerebellum, which is involved in monitoring movements.

Freeing a beached vessel usually involved the laborious unloading of cargo until the boat rode high enough to clear the snag.

The only cooking involved in this chilled corn soup takes place on the.

Previous studies have suggested that other genes are involved in manic depression.

Our part time school's web site offers social networking but not to many seem to get involved with that either.

Two-thirds of the sightings involved large black animals resembling melanistic leopards, also known as panthers.

Both had their own children inoculated, knowing the risks involved.

The only cooking involved in this chilled corn soup takes place on the grill, which makes it perfect for summer.

Investigation, according to information in the transcript and lawyers involved in the case.

Candidates must have an active research agenda and be involved in appropriate professional organizations.

But it is clearly relevant to those involved in public-health policy.

It took a lot of concentration to coordinate all of the equipment and personnel involved and stay on schedule.

The probabilities involved in locating one of them call.

One installation involved a room wallpapered in a bright pink, yellow and green pattern.

Scientists not involved in the work said it presents a solid case for making invisibility an attainable goal.

Of course, the conversion processes involved would be far more efficient than.

Have students work with partners to find out about the various individuals involved in the stages of extracting and using gold.

Brain waves are produced by the extremely low voltages involved in transmitting messages among neurons.

Once she got involved in art, she could become a collector.

It's really best if they are involved in the kitchen renovation design phase as early as possible.

Card was involved from day one in building the franchise across entertainment mediums.

Less well known is that they were also involved with beer.

Both cases involved women with high-flying careers that came to an abrupt end after their cases.

It is a suicide mission, and everyone involved knows it.

Most of the back of our brain is devoted to visual processing, and half of the cortex is involved with sight.

His descendants remain involved in the business today.

One way to change that is to get involved in recruitment.

The ideal span is partly determined by the nature of the work involved.

Help them learn how they can get involved in keeping these animals from becoming.

Although their eyes and optic nerves were functional, the region of their brains involved in visual processing had been damaged.

But while hula historically has involved a merging of different cultural forms, kumu hulas of today want blending stopped.

It was all involved in the secrets of nature before the agency chose my work to deal with the secrecy of man.

As courts get more involved in campus affairs, such.

They tested this by looking for the as-yet unknown genetic mutation involved in what is called the leopard complex.

Previous research has shown that this region is involved in enjoyment or satisfaction.

But recent work indicates that glia are intimately involved in all aspects of our brain's information processing.

Instead, the different deep tail types may have been involved in display or species.

These days, the number of pages commonly involved in commercial litigation discovery has ballooned into the billions.

The university did not press criminal charges against any students or nonstudent employees involved in the case.

Carlson is closely involved with the local business community and students meet executives throughout the programme.

Students can make a bar graph to accompany the map naming the exploited regions involved and their approximate acreage.

But no one could figure out how to isolate the genes involved.

Playing involved running and shooting or running and slashing, depending on which side you wind up.

The discovery may help identify genes and pathways involved in insomnia and other sleep disorders in humans.

Cham and others involved with the project are hoping to have the comedy ready for screenings on college campuses by fall.

In their particular case they chose a game that involved four people who had never met.

Structures in the human brain once devoted only to visualizing spaces are now also involved in.

But it also decreased blood flow in areas involved in memory formation and regions that normally moderate drug-seeking behavior.

Those that were more active were involved in protecting against bacteria.

Fouke initially thought that three or four types of bacteria might be involved in black band disease.

Among them is increased gray matter in areas involved in infant care.

Leonard, is a convincing actor and really gets his audience involved in the mock training.

Most of them involved the everyday life and work of women: clothing, household implements, fireplaces and cook stoves.

The second has involved a tortuous row over imported second-hand cars.

The research, which involved furry moth larvae called woolly.

Some scientists have argued that climate is not involved in the increasing highland epidemics.

One of the barriers to publishing a story about diamond growers is that almost everyone involved is touchy about secrecy.

There are also none of those overheads involved in running a physical space.

Students should adopt the perspective of different personalities involved in, or affected by, the nuclear-powered submarine.

It appears that different brain systems are involved.

The experiment involved students playing a gambling game.

One team involved in the census reported the discovery of marine animals thriving in the hottest ocean waters ever recorded.

The coupling between all the bodies involved can quickly become very.

Although there is no proven evidence that anyone involved sought to oust him, he has called the event an attempted coup.

About half of all the genes known to be involved in cancer are patented.

Phages have been involved with bacteria for eons and they've figured out how to kill these organisms efficiently.

Most involved small-time traders operating in tiny firms, but not all.

Crucially, the genes responsible are within the set of those involved in digit number and patterning.

Researchers involved in the field suggest a number of research avenues that could be more fruitful for counter-terrorism.

However, the article is suggesting a more involved process, one that does not seem practical.

Activity was also decreased in parts of the parietal and prefrontal regions involved in consciousness and awareness of change.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object), -volved, -volv·ing.

to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.

to engage or employ.

to affect, as something within the scope of operation.

to include, contain, or comprehend within itself or its scope.

to bring into an intricate or complicated form or condition.

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to bring into difficulties (usually followed by with): a plot to involve one nation in a war with another.

to cause to be troublesomely associated or concerned, as in something embarrassing or unfavorable: Don't involve me in your quarrel!

to combine inextricably (usually followed by with).

to implicate, as in guilt or crime, or in any matter or affair.

10.

to engage the interests or emotions or commitment of: to become involved in the disarmament movement; to become involved with another woman.

11.

to preoccupy or absorb fully (usually used passively or reflexively): You are much too involved with the problem to see it clearly.

12.

to envelop or enfold, as if with a wrapping.

13.

to swallow up, engulf, or overwhelm.

14.

Archaic. to roll, surround, or shroud, as in a wrapping.

to roll up on itself; wind spirally; coil; wreathe.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English involven < Latin involvere to roll in or up, equivalent to in- in-² + volvere to roll; see revolve

Related forms

in·volve·ment, noun

in·volv·er, noun

in·ter·in·volve, verb (used with object), -volved, -volv·ing.

non·in·volve·ment, noun

o·ver·in·volve, verb (used with object), -volved, -volv·ing.

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pre·in·volve, verb (used with object), -volved, -volv·ing.

pre·in·volve·ment, noun

re·in·volve, verb (used with object), -volved, -volv·ing.

re·in·volve·ment, noun

COLLAPSE

Synonyms
1. necessitate, require, demand. 6, 7, 9. Involve, entangle, implicate imply getting a person connected or bound up with something from which it is difficult to extricate himself or herself. To involve is to bring more or less deeply into something, especially of a complicated, embarrassing, or troublesome nature: to involve someone in debt. To entangle (usually passive or reflexive) is to involve so deeply in a tangle as to confuse and make helpless: to entangle oneself in a mass of contradictory statements. To implicate is to connect a person with something discreditable or wrong: implicated in a plot.

Antonyms
7. extricate.

Link To Involved

Collins

World English Dictionary

involved (ɪnˈvɒlvd)

—*adj* (foll by with)
1.	complicated; difficult to comprehend: an involved literary style
2.	(usually postpositive) concerned or implicated: one of the men involved
3.	euphemistic having sexual relations: she was involved with a number of men

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Word Origin & History

involve

1382, from L. involvere "entangle, envelop," lit. "roll into," from in- "in" + volvere "to roll" (see vulva). Originally "envelop, surround," sense of "take in, include" first recorded 1605. Involved "complicated" is from 1643.

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