INVOLVE

Connect closely and often incriminatingly

Example: "This new ruling affects your business"

• affect  14
• regard  8

• bear on
• come to
• concern  11
• have to do with
• pertain  9
• refer  8
• relate  6
• touch  10
• touch on

• implicate  15

Engage as a participant

Example: "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"

• admit  8
• include  10
• let in

• drag  6
• drag in
• embroil  11
• sweep  10
• • sweep up
  • tangle  7
  • entangle  9
  • mire  6
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Have as a necessary feature

Example: "This decision involves many changes"

• imply  12

• feature  10
• have  10

• carry  10

Require as useful, just, or proper

Example: "It takes nerve to do what she did"

• ask  7
• call for
• demand  10
• necessitate  13
• need  5
• postulate  11
• require  16
• take  8

• claim  9
• exact  14
• take  8
• govern  10
• • draw  8
  • cost  6
  • cry for
  • cry out for
  • compel  12
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Contain as a part

Example: "Dinner at joe's always involves at least six courses"

Occupy or engage the interest of

Example: "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"

Make complex or intricate or complicated

Example: "The situation was rather involved"