| involve | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. affect, involve, regard | connect closely and often incriminatingly.; "This new ruling affects your business" |
| ~ bear on, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, come to, refer, relate, touch on, touch | be relevant to.; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" |
| ~ implicate | bring into intimate and incriminating connection.; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government" |
| v. (stative) | 2. involve | engage as a participant.; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!" |
| ~ let in, admit, include | allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of.; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar" |
| ~ drag in, embroil, sweep up, tangle, drag, sweep | force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action.; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" |
| ~ entangle, mire | entrap.; "Our people should not be mired in the past" |
| v. (stative) | 3. imply, involve | have as a necessary feature.; "This decision involves many changes" |
| ~ feature, have | have as a feature.; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France" |
| ~ carry | be necessarily associated with or result in or involve.; "This crime carries a penalty of five years in prison" |
| v. (stative) | 4. ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take | 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" |
| ~ exact, claim, take | take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" |
| ~ exact, claim, take | take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" |
| ~ govern | require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood.; "most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German" |
| ~ draw | require a specified depth for floating.; "This boat draws 70 inches" |
| ~ cost | require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice.; "This mistake cost him his job" |
| ~ cry for, cry out for | need badly or desperately.; "This question cries out for an answer" |
| ~ compel | necessitate or exact.; "the water shortage compels conservation" |
| v. (stative) | 5. involve | contain as a part.; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses" |
| ~ include | have as a part, be made up out of.; "The list includes the names of many famous writers" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. involve | occupy or engage the interest of.; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon" |
| ~ engage, engross, occupy, absorb | consume all of one's attention or time.; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely" |
| v. (change) | 7. involve | make complex or intricate or complicated.; "The situation was rather involved" |
| ~ rarify, complicate, refine, elaborate | make more complex, intricate, or richer.; "refine a design or pattern" |
| relate | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in | make a logical or causal connection.; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" |
| ~ remember | exercise, or have the power of, memory.; "After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember"; "some remember better than others" |
| ~ cerebrate, cogitate, think | use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments.; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" |
| ~ interrelate | place into a mutual relationship.; "I cannot interrelate these two events" |
| ~ correlate | bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation.; "I cannot correlate these two pieces of information" |
| ~ identify | conceive of as united or associated.; "Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus" |
| ~ free-associate | associate freely.; "Let's associate freely to bring up old memories" |
| ~ have in mind, think of, mean | intend to refer to.; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!" |
| v. (stative) | 2. bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on | be relevant to.; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" |
| ~ allude, advert, touch | make a more or less disguised reference to.; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" |
| ~ center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around | center upon.; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work" |
| ~ go for, apply, hold | be pertinent or relevant or applicable.; "The same laws apply to you!"; "This theory holds for all irrational numbers"; "The same rules go for everyone" |
| ~ involve, affect, regard | connect closely and often incriminatingly.; "This new ruling affects your business" |
| ~ matter to, interest | be of importance or consequence.; "This matters to me!" |
| v. (communication) | 3. relate | give an account of.; "The witness related the events" |
| ~ recount, narrate, tell, recite | narrate or give a detailed account of.; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" |
| v. (stative) | 4. interrelate, relate | be in a relationship with.; "How are these two observations related?" |
| ~ interrelate | place into a mutual relationship.; "I cannot interrelate these two events" |
| ~ predicate | make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition.; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'" |
| ~ tutor | act as a guardian to someone. |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ tie in | be in connection with something relevant.; "This ties in closely with his earlier remarks" |
| v. (social) | 5. relate | have or establish a relationship to.; "She relates well to her peers" |
| ~ harmonise, harmonize | bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously.; "harmonize the different interests" |
| ~ oblige, obligate, bind, hold | bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted.; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise" |
| ~ interact | act together or towards others or with others.; "He should interact more with his colleagues" |
| ~ connect | establish a rapport or relationship.; "The President of this university really connects with the faculty" |
| ~ disrespect | show a lack of respect for. |
| ~ mesh | work together in harmony. |
| ~ take back | resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband. |
| ~ get along with, get on, get on with, get along | have smooth relations.; "My boss and I get along very well" |
| ~ bind, bond, attach, tie | create social or emotional ties.; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" |
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