1.To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine. "Some of serpent kind... involved Their snaky folds."
2.To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity. "And leave a singèd bottom all involved With stench and smoke."
3.To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure. "Involved discourses."
4.To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply. "He knows His end with mine involved." "The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction."
5.To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge. (R.) "The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast involuntary throng." "Earth with hell To mingle and involve."
6.To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.
7.To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb. "Involved in a deep study."
8.(Math.) 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.
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