Synonym: absorb, affect, complicate, concern, confound, confuse, encompass, engross, entail, envelop, implicate, include, occupy, tangle. Similar words: involved, involvement, evolve, revolve around, invoke, resolve, dissolve, revolving. Meaning: [ɪn'vɑlv /-'vɒlv] v. 1. connect closely and often incriminatingly 2. engage as a participant 3. have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail 4. require as useful, just, or proper 5. contain as a part 6. wrap 7. occupy or engage the interest of 8. make complex or intricate or complicated.
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151) This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection.
152) For a fiveor six-year-old, adding will usually involve piling up beans, buttons, or nuts.
153) Unlike sleep, rest does not involve an alteration in conscious level.
154) In other words, they can easily be converted into cash but may involve some loss.
155) Frequently the stresses involve a combination of these different levels.
156) Similarly the scientific accounts of children's language development involve consideration of the nature of bilingualism in psycholinguistic terms.
157) Proceedings under the Children Act 1989 are civil but may involve allegations of very serious misconduct. Sentencedict.com
158) This will involve a brief discussion of the approach known in contemporary philosophy as functionalism.
159) Now, however, it seems that the route to success may once again involve going back to basics.
160) It goes without saying that almost invariably the instances of animal behaviour that we find ourselves discussing involve adult creatures.
161) A politically-controversial alternative would involve importing low-sulphur coal from overseas.
162) Sadly, most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball.
163) To write a biography of another can involve one in autobiography.
164) The preverbal identifications of the Imaginary involve identifications based on symbiotic fusion with the primary caretaker.
165) Full appreciation of place will involve exploration of the inter-relationships among the physical environment, the built environment, and the people.
166) Thus conservation programmes must involve integration between upland and lowland agricultural systems.
167) Higher level tasks could involve using extraneous knowledge to reach conclusions.
168) Miller, now a financial consultant, confirmed the deal would involve buying the whole club.
169) The extension of the method to aggregate data on nation states will certainly follow, but will involve more complicated techniques.
170) The first signs of breeding will probably involve some serious digging activity, often round the bases of the rocks.
171) Flexible working may apply to this job and would involve the successful applicant working on average one and half hours per week.
172) Theorists carried out the calculations for the routes which involve emitting one or two gluons in the early 1980s.
173) Most bankruptcies involve couples who jointly file a petition to have their debts wiped out.
174) And most accidents involve children under the age of 5.
175) This would involve the creation of the world's longest and deepest electrical transmission line.
176) The regional attorney general's office is investigating corruption allegations against the university's former rector that involve millions of dollars.
177) His ideas for change would involve some regrouping of staff, and some need for training with new computer software.
178) It should not involve a fundamental alteration of the position's particular requirements.
179) The print itself is featureless and does nothing visually to capture the attention or involve the emotions.
180) Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind has warned any offensive ground action would involve more than 100,000 men and lead to heavy casualties.
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