involve

verb9

1. •
   To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.

   • By involving herself in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live.
   • How can we involve the audience more during the show?
2. •
   [with oneself] Chiefly followed by with: to engage (someone or oneself) in an emotional or sexual relationship.
3. •
   to have something as a necessary part of what is done or what happens

   • My job involves forecasting economic trends.
4. •
   To include (something) as a logical or natural, or necessary component, or consequence or effect of something else; to entail, to imply.
5. •
   (figurative) To entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); especially, to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation.

   • [O]ld Oedipus / Would be amazd, and take it in foule snufs / That such Cymerian darknes should involve / A quaint conceit that he could not resolve. — 1598
6. •
   (no longer used) To cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround.

   • [T]he vvise mans eyes keepe vvatch in his head vvhereas the foole roundeth about in darknesse: but vvithall I learned that the same mortalitie inuolueth them both. — 1605
7. •
   (no longer used) To make (something) intricate; to complicate.

   • And as wililye as those shrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I shall vse so playn and open a way therin, that euery man shall well see the trouth. — 1533
8. •
   (no longer used) To form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds; to entwine, to fold up, to roll, to wind round.

   • VVe must be stiffe and steddie in resolue. / Let's thus our hands, our hearts, our armes inuolue. — 1600
9. •
   (no longer used) To multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times; to raise to any assigned power.

   • a quantity involved to the third or fourth power