Verb

(en verb)

To take hold of; to grasp; to grab tightly.

They clasped hands and parted as friends.

* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit) :

And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long.

* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21:

The poor dear lady shivered, and I could see the tension of her nerves as she clasped her husband closer to her and bent her head lower and lower still on his breast.

To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp.

Verb

(involv)

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

* (John Milton)

Some of serpent kind involved / Their snaky folds.

To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.

* (John Milton)

And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.

To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

* (John Locke)

Involved discourses.

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To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

* (John Milton)

He knows / His end with mine involved .

* Tillotson

The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.

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To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.

* (Alexander Pope)

The gathering number, as it moves along, / Involves a vast involuntary throng.

* (John Milton)

Earth with hell / To mingle and involve .

To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass.

To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.

* Sir (Walter Scott)

Involved in a deep study.

(mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.