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"text": "My job involves forecasting economic trends.",
"type": "example"
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"ref": "2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4, New Haven, Conn.: Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-05-29",
"text": "Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes' cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.",
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}
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"To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include.",
"To include (something) as a logical or natural, or necessary component, or consequence or effect of something else; to entail, to imply."
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"To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include.",
"(specifically) To include (something) as a logical or natural, or necessary component, or consequence or effect of something else; to entail, to imply."
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"text": "By involving herself in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "How can we involve the audience more during the show?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I don’t want to involve him in my personal affairs.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "We are always trying to involve new technology in our products.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1794 October 29, Thomas Erskine (counsel for the defendant), “The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason, before the Court Holden under a Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer, at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, […] ”, in T[homas] B[ayly] Howell, Thomas Jones Howell, compilers, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, […], volume XXIV, London: […] T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; […], published 1818, →OCLC, columns 436–437",
"text": "There is no manner of doubt that upon an indictment for a conspiracy, be the conspiracy to do one act, or another act, or be the quality of the act done, when it is done, what it may, that as far as you can connect persons acting together towards one purpose, which purpose constitutes the crime, you may undoubtedly involve them together by evidence, but that is not the question here.",
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"To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.",
"Chiefly followed by with: to engage (someone or oneself) in an emotional or sexual relationship."
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[
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"To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.",
"(specifically, also reflexive, chiefly passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to engage (someone or oneself) in an emotional or sexual relationship."
],
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to engage (someone or oneself) in an emotional or sexual relationship",
"word": "olla suhteessa"
}
]
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{
"text": "to involve a person in debt or misery",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1843, Cha[rle]s Ansell et al., “Introduction to the Tables”, in Tables Exhibiting the Law of Mortality, Deduced from the Combined Experience of Seventeen Life Assurance Offices, […], London: […] J. King, […], →OCLC, page vii",
"text": "The materials being thus combined, the next process was to involve them, so as to obtain the number exposed to the risk of mortality in each year of age, in order to ascertain the proportion of deaths; […]",
"type": "quotation"
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"To entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); especially, to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation."
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[
"thing",
"thing"
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[
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"confusing#Adjective"
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[
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"troublesome"
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"(figuratively) To entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); especially, to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation."
],
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{
"word": "blend"
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{
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "implicate"
},
{
"word": "merge"
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "qatmaq"
},
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "calamaq"
},
{
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "qoşmaq"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 6 6 73 2 4 6 3",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "qarışdırmaq"
},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "oplitam",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "оплитам"
},
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zaplitam",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "заплитам"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 6 6 73 2 4 6 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vključvam v sebe si",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "включвам в себе си"
},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "zahrnout"
},
{
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "zamíchat"
},
{
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "zapojit"
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 6 6 73 2 4 6 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "johtaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 6 6 73 2 4 6 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "sotkea"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 6 6 73 2 4 6 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "viedä"
},
{
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vóvleče",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "во́влече"
},
{
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vovlékuva",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вовле́кува"
},
{
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"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "uḷppeṭuttuka",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തുക"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 6 6 73 2 4 6 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "envolver"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 6 6 73 2 4 6 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "soderžátʹ",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "содержа́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 6 6 73 2 4 6 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vključátʹ",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "включа́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 6 6 73 2 4 6 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vključítʹ",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "включи́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 6 6 73 2 4 6 3",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vključáty",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "включа́ти"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 6 6 73 2 4 6 3",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mistýty",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "місти́ти"
}
]
},
{
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"examples": [
{
"text": "to involve in darkness or obscurity",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1862 July, “Art. VII.—The Publications of the Surtees Society. London, Durham, and Edinburgh. [book review]”, in The Christian Remembrancer. A Quarterly Review, volume XLIV, number CXVII (New Series), London: John and Charles Mozley, […]; New York, N.Y.: Willmer & Rogers, page 193",
"text": "O God, who involvedst in the consuming fire the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, and gavest salvation to Lot Thy servant and his household: […] show us in this test of our littleness the virtue of the same Holy Spirit, and by the heat of this Fire separate the believing and unbelieving, […]",
"type": "quotation"
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],
"glosses": [
"To cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround."
],
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"completely",
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[
"hide",
"hide#Verb"
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"surround",
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic)",
"To cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "enfold"
},
{
"word": "enwrap"
},
{
"word": "swallow up"
}
],
"tags": [
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"transitive"
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"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obhvaštam",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "обхващам"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "zabalit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "peittää"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "ympäröidä"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "sulkea"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "kätkeä"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "magába foglal"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "avvolgere"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"alt": "まきこむ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "makikomu",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "巻き込む"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ópfati",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "о́пфати"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ópfaḱa",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "о́пфаќа"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "óbzeme",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "о́бземе"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "óbzema",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "о́бзема"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "envolver"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obvolákivatʹ",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "обвола́кивать"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obvolóčʹ",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "обволо́чь"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "okútyvatʹ",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "оку́тывать"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "okútatʹ",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "оку́тать"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pokryvátʹ",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "покрыва́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 2 3 1 88 3 0 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pokrýtʹ",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "покры́ть"
}
]
},
{
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"To form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds; to entwine, to fold up, to roll, to wind round."
],
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[
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],
[
"coil",
"coil#Noun"
],
[
"spiral",
"spiral#Noun"
],
[
"folds",
"fold#Noun"
],
[
"entwine",
"entwine"
],
[
"fold up",
"fold up"
],
[
"roll",
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],
[
"wind",
"wind#Verb"
],
[
"round",
"round#Preposition"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic)",
"To form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds; to entwine, to fold up, to roll, to wind round."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"transitive"
],
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{
"_dis1": "3 3 6 9 3 4 66 1 6",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "uvivam",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"word": "увивам"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 6 9 3 4 66 1 6",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"word": "zavinout"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 6 9 3 4 66 1 6",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"word": "svinout"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 6 9 3 4 66 1 6",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"word": "kääriä"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 6 9 3 4 66 1 6",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "závitka",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "за́витка"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 6 9 3 4 66 1 6",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zavítkuva",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "зави́ткува"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 6 9 3 4 66 1 6",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "objórtyvatʹ",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "обёртывать"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 6 9 3 4 66 1 6",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obernútʹ",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "оберну́ть pf or обороти́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 6 9 3 4 66 1 6",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oboráčivatʹ",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "обора́чивать"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 6 9 3 4 66 1 6",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obernútʹ",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "оберну́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 6 9 3 4 66 1 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"word": "envolver"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
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{
"ref": "1848, Thomas Milner, “Tides and Oceanic Highways”, in The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation, […], new edition, London: W[illia]m S. Orr & Co., […], →OCLC, page 355",
"text": "The distribution and configuration of the land, together with the influence of the winds, greatly involve the problem of the tides, and render it one of the most difficult in the whole range of physics.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1859, T. G. Logan, “To the Director-General of the Army Medical Department”, in Army Medical Department. Statistical, Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1859. […], London: […] Harrison and Sons, for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, published 1861, →OCLC, page 169",
"text": "The sewerage and drainage of the town of Gibraltar, being upon a very defective system, greatly involve the sanitary welfare of the troops, many of the barrack buildings being immediately within the influences of such evil.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1878 October 25, “Engineers in the Mercantile Marine. No. III.”, in The Engineer, volume XLVI, London: Office for publication and advertisements, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 294, column 1",
"text": "Before leaving this branch of our subject, it may be well to point out that a young man who possesses the power of explaining himself clearly, without stammering and stumbling, and involving his sentences, always has a great advantage on his side.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make (something) intricate; to complicate."
],
"id": "en-involve-en-verb-4aMbzuSB",
"links": [
[
"make",
"make#Verb"
],
[
"intricate",
"intricate#Adjective"
],
[
"complicate",
"complicate#Verb"
]
],
"qualifier": "archaic or obsolete",
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic or obsolete)",
"To make (something) intricate; to complicate."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 2 6 13 10 6 6 52 6",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "usložnjavam",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"word": "усложнявам"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 6 13 10 6 6 52 6",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"word": "zkomplikovat"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 6 13 10 6 6 52 6",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"word": "zamotat"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 6 13 10 6 6 52 6",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"word": "mutkistaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 6 13 10 6 6 52 6",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"word": "bonyolít"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 6 13 10 6 6 52 6",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "úsložni",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "у́сложни"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 6 13 10 6 6 52 6",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "uslóžnuva",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "усло́жнува"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 6 13 10 6 6 52 6",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zapútyvatʹ",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "запу́тывать"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 6 13 10 6 6 52 6",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zapútatʹ",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "запу́тать"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mathematics",
"orig": "en:Mathematics",
"parents": [
"Formal sciences",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a quantity involved to the third or fourth power",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1814, Jermiah Day, “Evolution of Compound Quantities”, in An Introduction to Algebra, Being the First Part of a Course of Mathematics, […], New Haven, Conn.: Howe & Deforest; Oliver Steele, printer, →OCLC, article 484, page 242",
"text": "Subtract the power from the given quantity, and divide the first term of the remainder, by the first term of the root involved to the next inferiour power, and multiplied by the index of the given power; the quotient will be the next term of the root.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times; to raise to any assigned power."
],
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"links": [
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"multiply",
"multiply"
],
[
"number",
"number#Noun"
],
[
"given",
"given#Adjective"
],
[
"times",
"time#Noun"
],
[
"raise",
"raise#Verb"
],
[
"assigned",
"assigned#Adjective"
],
[
"power",
"power#Noun"
]
],
"qualifier": "archaic or obsolete",
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic or obsolete)",
"(mathematics) To multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times; to raise to any assigned power."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"mathematics",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
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"_dis1": "2 3 4 5 2 1 2 1 81",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "qüvvətə yüksəltmək"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 4 5 2 1 2 1 81",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "umocnit"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 4 5 2 1 2 1 81",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "nostaa ... potenssiin"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 4 5 2 1 2 1 81",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "hatványra emel"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 4 5 2 1 2 1 81",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "elevare"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 4 5 2 1 2 1 81",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "elevar"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 4 5 2 1 2 1 81",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozvodítʹ v stépenʹ",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "возводи́ть в сте́пень"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 4 5 2 1 2 1 81",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozvestí v stépenʹ",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "возвести́ в сте́пень"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 4 5 2 1 2 1 81",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "elevar"
}
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈvɒlv/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈvɔlv/",
"tags": [
"British",
"Southern",
"Standard"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈvoːv/",
"tags": [
"Multicultural-London-English"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈvɑlv/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒlv"
},
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"tags": [
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],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "envolve"
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "27 27 15 16 2 3 4 1 5",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"word": "ampleksi"
},
{
"_dis1": "27 27 15 16 2 3 4 1 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"word": "kuulua"
},
{
"_dis1": "27 27 15 16 2 3 4 1 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "liittyä (part as a subject, whole in the illative, but the word order is still usually the same as in English)",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include"
},
{
"_dis1": "27 27 15 16 2 3 4 1 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"word": "sisältää"
},
{
"_dis1": "27 27 15 16 2 3 4 1 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"word": "käsittää"
},
{
"_dis1": "27 27 15 16 2 3 4 1 5",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vklúčuva",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вклу́чува"
},
{
"_dis1": "27 27 15 16 2 3 4 1 5",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vklúči",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "вклу́чи"
},
{
"_dis1": "27 27 15 16 2 3 4 1 5",
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "uḷppeṭuka",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"word": "ഉൾപ്പെടുക"
},
{
"_dis1": "27 27 15 16 2 3 4 1 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "involucrado"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 46 46 2 1 1 0 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "namesvam",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "намесвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 46 46 2 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "zamotat se do"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 46 46 2 1 1 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "zaplést se"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 46 46 2 1 1 0 1",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "haaratud olema"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 46 46 2 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "sotkea"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 46 46 2 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "in something negative",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "sekoittaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 46 46 2 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "osallistua"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 46 46 2 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"english": "involve oneself",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "uppoutua"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 46 46 2 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "involve oneself in something negative",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "sekaantua"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 46 46 2 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "tuoda mukaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 46 46 2 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "in terms of participation",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "vetää mukaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 46 46 2 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"english": "to use, utilize, exploit",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "hyödyntää"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 46 46 2 1 1 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "yhdistää"
},
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"ref": "2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4, New Haven, Conn.: Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-05-29",
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"ref": "1794 October 29, Thomas Erskine (counsel for the defendant), “The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason, before the Court Holden under a Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer, at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, […] ”, in T[homas] B[ayly] Howell, Thomas Jones Howell, compilers, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, […], volume XXIV, London: […] T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; […], published 1818, →OCLC, columns 436–437",
"text": "There is no manner of doubt that upon an indictment for a conspiracy, be the conspiracy to do one act, or another act, or be the quality of the act done, when it is done, what it may, that as far as you can connect persons acting together towards one purpose, which purpose constitutes the crime, you may undoubtedly involve them together by evidence, but that is not the question here.",
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"text": "to involve a person in debt or misery",
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"ref": "1843, Cha[rle]s Ansell et al., “Introduction to the Tables”, in Tables Exhibiting the Law of Mortality, Deduced from the Combined Experience of Seventeen Life Assurance Offices, […], London: […] J. King, […], →OCLC, page vii",
"text": "The materials being thus combined, the next process was to involve them, so as to obtain the number exposed to the risk of mortality in each year of age, in order to ascertain the proportion of deaths; […]",
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"text": "to involve in darkness or obscurity",
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"ref": "1862 July, “Art. VII.—The Publications of the Surtees Society. London, Durham, and Edinburgh. [book review]”, in The Christian Remembrancer. A Quarterly Review, volume XLIV, number CXVII (New Series), London: John and Charles Mozley, […]; New York, N.Y.: Willmer & Rogers, page 193",
"text": "O God, who involvedst in the consuming fire the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, and gavest salvation to Lot Thy servant and his household: […] show us in this test of our littleness the virtue of the same Holy Spirit, and by the heat of this Fire separate the believing and unbelieving, […]",
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"ref": "1848, Thomas Milner, “Tides and Oceanic Highways”, in The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation, […], new edition, London: W[illia]m S. Orr & Co., […], →OCLC, page 355",
"text": "The distribution and configuration of the land, together with the influence of the winds, greatly involve the problem of the tides, and render it one of the most difficult in the whole range of physics.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1859, T. G. Logan, “To the Director-General of the Army Medical Department”, in Army Medical Department. Statistical, Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1859. […], London: […] Harrison and Sons, for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, published 1861, →OCLC, page 169",
"text": "The sewerage and drainage of the town of Gibraltar, being upon a very defective system, greatly involve the sanitary welfare of the troops, many of the barrack buildings being immediately within the influences of such evil.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1878 October 25, “Engineers in the Mercantile Marine. No. III.”, in The Engineer, volume XLVI, London: Office for publication and advertisements, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 294, column 1",
"text": "Before leaving this branch of our subject, it may be well to point out that a young man who possesses the power of explaining himself clearly, without stammering and stumbling, and involving his sentences, always has a great advantage on his side.",
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"text": "a quantity involved to the third or fourth power",
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},
{
"ref": "1814, Jermiah Day, “Evolution of Compound Quantities”, in An Introduction to Algebra, Being the First Part of a Course of Mathematics, […], New Haven, Conn.: Howe & Deforest; Oliver Steele, printer, →OCLC, article 484, page 242",
"text": "Subtract the power from the given quantity, and divide the first term of the remainder, by the first term of the root involved to the next inferiour power, and multiplied by the index of the given power; the quotient will be the next term of the root.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times; to raise to any assigned power."
],
"links": [
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"multiply",
"multiply"
],
[
"number",
"number#Noun"
],
[
"given",
"given#Adjective"
],
[
"times",
"time#Noun"
],
[
"raise",
"raise#Verb"
],
[
"assigned",
"assigned#Adjective"
],
[
"power",
"power#Noun"
]
],
"qualifier": "archaic or obsolete",
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic or obsolete)",
"(mathematics) To multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times; to raise to any assigned power."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈvɒlv/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈvɔlv/",
"tags": [
"British",
"Southern",
"Standard"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈvoːv/",
"tags": [
"Multicultural-London-English"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɪnˈvɑlv/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒlv"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "envolve"
}
],
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"word": "ampleksi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"word": "kuulua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "liittyä (part as a subject, whole in the illative, but the word order is still usually the same as in English)",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"word": "sisältää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"word": "käsittää"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vklúčuva",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вклу́чува"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vklúči",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "вклу́чи"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "uḷppeṭuka",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"word": "ഉൾപ്പെടുക"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to have (something) as a component or a related part — see also comprise, include",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "involucrado"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "namesvam",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "намесвам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "zamotat se do"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "zaplést se"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "haaratud olema"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "sotkea"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "in something negative",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "sekoittaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "osallistua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "involve oneself",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "uppoutua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "involve oneself in something negative",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "sekaantua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "tuoda mukaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "in terms of participation",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "vetää mukaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "to use, utilize, exploit",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "hyödyntää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "yhdistää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "to associate",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "liittää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "impliquer"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "coinvolgere"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zámeša",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "за́меша"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zaméšuva",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "заме́шува"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vóvleče",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "во́влече"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vovlékuva",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вовле́кува"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vklúčuva",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вклу́чува"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vklúči",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "вклу́чи"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "uḷppeṭuttuka",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തുക"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "angażować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zaangażować"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "envolver"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kasátʹsja",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "каса́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kosnútʹsja",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "косну́ться"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "involucrarse"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "stosuvátysja",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "стосува́тися"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation",
"word": "cynnwys"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to engage (someone or oneself) in an emotional or sexual relationship",
"word": "olla suhteessa"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "qatmaq"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "calamaq"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "qoşmaq"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "qarışdırmaq"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "oplitam",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "оплитам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zaplitam",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "заплитам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vključvam v sebe si",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "включвам в себе си"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "zahrnout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "zamíchat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "zapojit"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "johtaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "sotkea"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "viedä"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vóvleče",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "во́влече"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vovlékuva",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вовле́кува"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "uḷppeṭuttuka",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തുക"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "envolver"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "soderžátʹ",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "содержа́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vključátʹ",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "включа́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vključítʹ",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "включи́ть"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vključáty",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "включа́ти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mistýty",
"sense": "to entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation",
"word": "місти́ти"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obhvaštam",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "обхващам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "zabalit"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "peittää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "ympäröidä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "sulkea"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "kätkeä"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "magába foglal"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "avvolgere"
},
{
"alt": "まきこむ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "makikomu",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "巻き込む"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ópfati",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "о́пфати"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ópfaḱa",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "о́пфаќа"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "óbzeme",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "о́бземе"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "óbzema",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "о́бзема"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"word": "envolver"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obvolákivatʹ",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "обвола́кивать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obvolóčʹ",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "обволо́чь"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "okútyvatʹ",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "оку́тывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "okútatʹ",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "оку́тать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pokryvátʹ",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "покрыва́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pokrýtʹ",
"sense": "to cover or envelop (something) completely; to hide, to surround",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "покры́ть"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "uvivam",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"word": "увивам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"word": "zavinout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"word": "svinout"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"word": "kääriä"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "závitka",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "за́витка"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zavítkuva",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "зави́ткува"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "objórtyvatʹ",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "обёртывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obernútʹ",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "оберну́ть pf or обороти́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oboráčivatʹ",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "обора́чивать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obernútʹ",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "оберну́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds — see also fold up, roll",
"word": "envolver"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "usložnjavam",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"word": "усложнявам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"word": "zkomplikovat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"word": "zamotat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"word": "mutkistaa"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"word": "bonyolít"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "úsložni",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "у́сложни"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "uslóžnuva",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "усло́жнува"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zapútyvatʹ",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "запу́тывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zapútatʹ",
"sense": "to make (something) intricate — see also complicate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "запу́тать"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "qüvvətə yüksəltmək"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "umocnit"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "nostaa ... potenssiin"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "hatványra emel"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "elevare"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "elevar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozvodítʹ v stépenʹ",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "возводи́ть в сте́пень"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozvestí v stépenʹ",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "возвести́ в сте́пень"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times",
"word": "elevar"
}
],
"word": "involve"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": oborotítʹ vs. obernútʹ",
"path": [
"involve"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "involve",
"trace": ""
}
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