单词 | involve |
释义 | involve (once / 80 pages) 1v 2v 3v 4v To involve means to connect. When you get involved in the Spanish Club, you attend meetings and events. If doing math well is involved in understanding advanced chemistry, that means it's a necessary part of it. When someone is very involved, it means they are engaged or connected to a lot of activities. When someone is self-involved, all they connect with is him or herself. If getting ice cream involves walking a mile to the ice cream shop, the exercise offsets the indulgence. When no exercise is involved, it's less healthy. WORD FAMILYinvolve: disinvolve, involution, involved, involvement, involves, involving+/disinvolve: disinvolved, disinvolving/involution: involutions/involved: involvedly, self-involved, uninvolved/involvement: involvements, non-involvement USAGE EXAMPLESScot McCloughan’s toughest job of the offseason involves finding the most effective way to overhaul a defense that’s sorely lacking in talent. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) These situations nearly always involve not just one harasser, but dozens or even thousands threatening or spreading a false rumor about their victim. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Karen is hypercritical of the school’s teachers, the curriculum, the kids and the other parents, either because they’re absent or overly involved. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v contain as a part Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses Hyper include have as a part, be made up out of 2v have as a necessary feature This decision involves many changes Syn|Hypo|Hyper imply carry be necessarily associated with or result in or involve feature, have have as a feature 3v require as useful, just, or proper 2Syn|Ant|Hypo ask, call for, demand, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take claim, exact, take take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs eliminate, obviate, rid of do away with claim, exact, take take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs governrequire to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood drawrequire a specified depth for floating costrequire to lose, suffer, or sacrifice cry for, cry out forneed badly or desperately compelnecessitate or exact 1v engage as a participant Don't involve me in your family affairs! Hypo|Hyper drag, drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up, tangle force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action entangle, mireentrap admit, include, let in allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of 2v connect closely and often incriminatingly 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper affect, regard implicate bring into intimate and incriminating connection bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on be relevant to v occupy or engage the interest of 4His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon Hyper absorb, engage, engross, occupy consume all of one's attention or time v make complex or intricate or complicated The situation was rather involved Hyper complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine make more complex, intricate, or richer |
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