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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
involve
1. connect closely and often incriminatingly (Freq. 56) - This new ruling affects your business • Syn: affect, regard • Derivationally related forms: regard (for: regard), involvement • Hypernyms: refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe with • Hyponyms: implicate • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s somebody - Something ----s somebody - Something ----s something 2. engage as a participant (Freq. 23) - Don't involve me in your family affairs! • Derivationally related forms: involution, involvement • Hypernyms: admit, let in, include • Hyponyms: embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in, entangle, mire • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s somebody - Somebody ----s somebody PP 3. have as a necessary feature (Freq. 17) - This decision involves many changes • Syn: imply • Derivationally related forms: involvement, implication (for: imply) • Hypernyms: have, feature • Hyponyms: carry • Verb Frames: - Something ----s something 4. require as useful, just, or proper (Freq. 12) - 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 • Syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, call for, demand • Ant: obviate (for: necessitate) • Derivationally related forms: demand (for: demand), requirement (for: require), need (for: need), necessity (for: necessitate) • Hyponyms: claim, take, exact, govern, draw, cost, cry out for, cry for, compel • Verb Group: claim, take, exact • Verb Frames: - Something ----s something - Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE (for: require) - It ----s that CLAUSE (for: require) - It ----s that CLAUSE (for: necessitate) 5. contain as a part (Freq. 6) - Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses • Hypernyms: include • Verb Frames: - Something ----s something 6. occupy or engage the interest of - His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon • Derivationally related forms: involvement • Hypernyms: absorb, engross, engage, occupy • Verb Frames: - Something ----s somebody 7. make complex or intricate or complicated - The situation was rather involved • Hypernyms: complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Something ----s something
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