[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

involved \involved"\, a. zool.
   same as involute.
   1913 webster
see also:
involute 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

involve \involve"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. involved; p. pr. 
   vb. n. involving. l. involvere, involutum, to roll about,
   wrap up; pref. in- in + volvere to roll: cf. of. involver.
   see voluble, and cf. involute.
   1913 webster
   1. to roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
      1913 webster

            some of serpent kind . . . involved
            their snaky folds.                    --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to
      involve in darkness or obscurity.
      1913 webster

            and leave a sing`ed bottom all involved
            with stench and smoke.                --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. to complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical
      structure. "involved discourses." --locke.
      1913 webster

   4. to connect with something as a natural or logical
      consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
      1913 webster

            he knows
            his end with mine involved.           --milton.
      1913 webster

            the contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
                                                  --tillotson.
      1913 webster

   5. to take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend
      or merge. r.
      1913 webster

            the gathering number, as it moves along,
            involves a vast involuntary throng.   --pope.
      1913 webster

            earth with hell
            to mingle and involve.                --milton.
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   6. to envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve
      a person in debt or misery.
      1913 webster

   7. to engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
      "involved in a deep study." --sir w. scott.
      1913 webster

   8. math. to raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a
      quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a
      quantity involved to the third or fourth power.

   syn: to imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle;
        embarrass; overwhelm.

   usage: to involve, imply. imply is opposed to express, or
          set forth; thus, an implied engagement is one fairly
          to be understood from the words used or the
          circumstances of the case, though not set forth in
          form. involve goes beyond the mere interpretation of
          things into their necessary relations; and hence, if
          one thing involves another, it so contains it that the
          two must go together by an indissoluble connection.
          war, for example, involves wide spread misery and
          death; the premises of a syllogism involve the
          conclusion.
          1913 webster
see also:
involved involving voluble involute involve imply 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

involved
     adj 1: 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" ant: uninvolved
     2: entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties
        in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership
        mired in details and confusion" syn: mired
     3: emotionally involved syn: involved withp
     4: highly involved or intricate; "the byzantine tax structure";
        "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning";
        "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined
        phraseology"; "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" syn: byzantine, convoluted, intricate, knotty,
         labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous
     5: enveloped; "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in
        which the question is involved"
see also:
uninvolved mired involved withp byzantine convoluted intricate 
knotty labyrinthine tangled tortuous 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

189 moby thesaurus words for "involved":
   byzantine, a party to, absorbed, absorbed in, accessory, accused,
   active, affected, affiliate, affiliated, allied, arraignable,
   arraigned, associate, associated, assumed, at fault, balled up,
   biased, blamed, bound, bound up with, bracketed,
   burdened with debt, buried in, caught up in, censurable, charged,
   cited, collateral, complex, complicated, comprehended, comprised,
   concerned, confounded, confused, confusing, conjugate, connected,
   contemplating, contemplative, convoluted, correlated, coupled,
   covered, crabbed, criminal, culpable, daedal, deep in debt,
   denounced, devious, devoted, devoted to, elaborate, embarrassed,
   embraced, embrangled, encompassed, encumbered, engaged, engrossed,
   engrossed in, enmeshed, entangled, envisaged, faulty, fouled up,
   gordian, guilty, hinted, immersed in, impeachable, impeached,
   implicated, implied, impugned, in complicity, in debt,
   in difficulties, in embarrassed circumstances, in hock,
   in the hole, in the red, included, incriminated, inculpated,
   indebted, indicated, indictable, indicted, inferred, influenced,
   intent, intent on, interested, interlinked, interlocked,
   interrelated, intimated, intricate, involuted, joined, knotted,
   knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, linked, lost in, loused up,
   many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meant, meditating,
   meditative, messed up, mixed up, monomaniacal, monopolized,
   mortgaged, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, obsessed, occupied,
   of that ilk, of that kind, one-sided, parallel, partaking, partial,
   participant, participating, participative, participatory, partisan,
   peccant, perplexed, plunged in debt, preoccupied, presumed,
   presupposed, ramified, related, reprehensible, reproachable,
   reproached, reprovable, roundabout, screwed up, sharing,
   single-minded, snarled, sophisticated, spliced, studious, studying,
   submerged in, subtle, suggested, supposed, swayed, swept up,
   taken up with, tangled, tangly, tasked, taxed, tied, tied up,
   to blame, tortuous, totally absorbed, twinned, twisted,
   under attack, under fire, undetached, undispassionate, unneutral,
   warped, wed, wedded, wrapped in, wrapped up in, yoked

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