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say it: in-VAHLV
involve is a verb meaning "connect closely and often incriminatingly". It is pronounced /ˌɪnˈvɑlv/ — in-VAHLV. It carries 7 recorded senses.
require as useful, just, or proper
“It takes nerve to do what she did”
“success usually requires hard work”
“This job asks a lot of patience and skill”
“This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice”
“This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert”
“This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent”
occupy or engage the interest of
“His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for involve come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.