involves

VERB

draw in; include

Synonyms

STRONGEST

affect associate catch commit comprise concern connect contain cover embroil engage hold implicate link mean prove relate require suggest

STRONG

absorb argue bind complicate comprehend compromise denote embrace engross enmesh entail entangle grip hook imply incorporate incriminate inculpate mire necessitate number preoccupy presuppose rivet tangle touch

WEAK

mix up point to rope in snarl up take in wrap up in

Antonyms

STRONGEST

abandon cancel cease disconnect dissociate divide exclude let go release separate stop

STRONG

disentangle explain ignore misunderstand reject untangle untwist

WEAK

free remove

Example Sentences

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From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2025

"It Involves new faces and new issues brought about by new situations which the Congress feels it is necessary to control in the public interest."

From Time Magazine Archive

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

It is vain to remind us how later Christianity has patronised nebular hypotheses and the The Nebular Hypothesis taken alone Involves Absurdity. doctrine of evolution.

From Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern by Picton, J. Allanson

Quantus per campos populatis montibus actus Contorquet silvas squalenti tergore serpens, 210 Et late umectat terras spumante veneno: Tantus, perdomitis decurrens Alpibus atro Involves bello Italiam, tantoque fragore Eruta convulsis prosternes oppida muris.’

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund