involve
1. connect closely and often incriminatingly (Freq. 56)
- This new ruling affects your business
• Syn:
affect, regard
• Derivationally related forms:
regard (for: regard), involvement
• Hypernyms:
refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to,
bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe with
• Hyponyms:
implicate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. engage as a participant (Freq. 23)
- Don't involve me in your family affairs!
• Derivationally related forms:
involution, involvement
• Hypernyms:
admit, let in, include
• Hyponyms:
embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag,
drag in, entangle, mire
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
3. have as a necessary feature (Freq. 17)
- This decision involves many changes
• Syn:
imply
• Derivationally related forms:
involvement, implication (for: imply)
• Hypernyms:
have, feature
• Hyponyms:
carry
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
4. require as useful, just, or proper (Freq. 12)
- 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
• Syn:
necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require,
take, call for, demand
• Ant:
obviate (for: necessitate)
• Derivationally related forms:
demand (for: demand), requirement (for: require), need (for: need), necessity (for: necessitate)
• Hyponyms:
claim, take, exact, govern, draw,
cost, cry out for, cry for, compel
• Verb Group:
claim, take, exact
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE (for: require)
- It ----s that CLAUSE (for: require)
- It ----s that CLAUSE (for: necessitate)
5. contain as a part (Freq. 6)
- Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses
• Hypernyms:
include
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
6. occupy or engage the interest of
- His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon
• Derivationally related forms:
involvement
• Hypernyms:
absorb, engross, engage, occupy
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
7. make complex or intricate or complicated
- The situation was rather involved
• Hypernyms:
complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
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