Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
involute . - Having returned to the normal state: noting specifically the uterus after pregnancy.
- Having undergone the retrograde processes peculiar to old age.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
involute .
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Examples
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You worry about making it structurally and technically cutting edge: involuted in the right ways, making the appropriate intertextual references, making it look smart.
intertribal: escapism as a luxury intertribal 2010
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A mind living in isolation turns inward and feeds off of its own compressed energy, becoming baroque, involuted, bonsai.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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But leaving aside its involuted story lines, one might wonder where lies the secret of Mr. Martin's success.
A Land of Wargs And Yunkishmen Tom Shippey 2011
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The denouement of "Ghost-Writer" is, in fact, reminiscent of Somerset Maugham, a no-nonsense writer who had no use for James's involuted ambiguities.
Her Master's Voice From the Other Side Terry Teachout 2011
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Although these thrillers depict elaborate action, they recast this action as being the involuted imagining of a diseased mind -- or of someone who has lost the will to live.
Govindini Murty: Charlize Theron's Young Adult and the Crisis of Narcissism in Our Popular Culture Govindini Murty 2011
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A mind living in isolation turns inward and feeds off of its own compressed energy, becoming baroque, involuted, bonsai.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Although these thrillers depict elaborate action, they recast this action as being the involuted imagining of a diseased mind -- or of someone who has lost the will to live.
Govindini Murty: Charlize Theron's Young Adult and the Crisis of Narcissism in Our Popular Culture Govindini Murty 2011
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As a result, we have writers who range from those who produce what can most charitably described as “mindless entertainment” to those who write books that are so involuted and complex that often a single book is all that they ever publish.
April « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008
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Overnight, the drug-treated CML cells died, and the tissue-culture flasks filled up with floating husks of involuted leukemia cells.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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He found that if he surgically removed the testicles of his dogs—and thereby depleted the dogs of the hormone testosterone—the prostate gland involuted and shriveled and the fluid secretion dried up precipitously.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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