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| v. (stative) | 1. drag, drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up, tangle | 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" |
| ~ involve | engage as a participant.; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!" |
| 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" |
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