involute
— Adjective
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～ especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward
involution
— Noun
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～ the action of enfolding something
involution
— Noun
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～ marked by elaborately complex detail
involution
— Noun
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～ reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
involution
— Noun
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～ the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
involution
— Noun
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～ the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"
involution
— Noun
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～ a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
involutional depression
— Noun
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～ a major depressive episode associated with the climacteric
involve
— Verb
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～ occupy or engage the interest of; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
involve
— Verb
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～ engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"
involve
— Verb
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～ contain as a part; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
involve
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～ make complex or intricate or complicated; "The situation was rather involved"
involve
— Verb
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～ connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"
involve
— Verb
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～ have as a necessary feature; "This decision involves many changes"
involve
— Verb
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～ 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"
involved
— Adjective
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～ 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"
involved
— Adjective
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～ enveloped; "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"
involved
— Adjective
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～ 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"
involved
— Adjective
– English
～ emotionally involved