verb
- becoming complex or intricate
- rolling or curling inward
- undergoing involution or degeneration
Usage: formal
Usage: technical
Usage: biology; medicine
Examples
- The plot was involuting with each new twist and revelation.
- The fern fronds were involuting as they prepared to unfurl.
- The aging tissue was involuting after the hormonal changes.
- Her thoughts kept involuting around the same troubling questions.
- The spiral shell showed a pattern of involuting chambers.
- The uterus begins involuting after childbirth to return to normal size.