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(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.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz

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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.

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