· connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"

Synonym(s): affect, regard

Hypernym(s): refer, pertain, relate, concern, come_to, bear_on, touch, touch_on, have_to_do_with

· engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"

Hypernym(s): admit, let_in, include

· have as a necessary feature; "This decision involves many changes"

Synonym(s): imply

Hypernym(s): have, feature

· 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"

Synonym(s): necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, call_for, demand

· contain as a part; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"

Hypernym(s): include

· occupy or engage the interest of; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"

Hypernym(s): absorb, engross, engage, occupy

· make complex or intricate or complicated; "The situation was rather involved"

Hypernym(s): complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate

· connected by participation or association or use; "we accomplished nothing, simply because of the large number of people involved"; "the problems involved"; "the involved muscles"; "I don't want to get involved"; "everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified"

Antonym(s): uninvolved

· entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"

Synonym(s): mired

· emotionally involved

· highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

Synonym(s): Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, tangled, tortuous

· enveloped; "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"