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Definition of involving : of Involve

Synonyms:

perplexing, entangling, snarling, tangling, confusing, mixing up, confounding, complicating

encompassing, comprising, marrying, enveloping, integrating, including, embodying, incorporating, enmeshing, composing, wedding

Usage examples:

• I considered it to be a clear duty, and I made up my mind to perform it, let the circumstances be ever so painfully like obstacles; but when the moment came it appeared impossible for me to set out alone, and also impossible to take my brother and sister with me without involving them in difficulties and displeasure. - "The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)", Frederic G. Kenyon.
• Were the views of government communicated to them, they could not keep their own secret, and such a price would be demanded for them, as Congress, probably, would think ought not to be given, lest it should be the cause of involving thousands of others of their citizens in the same condition. - "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson", Thomas Jefferson.
• F Issued by governor, 115; objected to by bishop as involving carrying of liquor to the Indians, 116; prohibited by king, 116; permitted under limitations, 128. See also Liquor question; Brandy question. - "The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History", Various.