单词 | re-embroil |
释义 | re-embroilv. transitive. To embroil again; esp. to involve or entangle (a person, group, etc.) in a dispute, etc., for a second or further time. ΚΠ 1647 T. Fairfax Let. from His Excellency 12 Powerfully working, to blast the just ends of this Parliament, and re-imbroile this late-bleeding and much wasted Nation, in more violent wars, distempers and miseries. 1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France iii. 839 There were yet certain Contrivances hatching in Paris to re-imbroil the Kingdom. 1723 R. Blackmore Alfred x. 363 Lest this audacious Tribe..Disturb the Throne and re-embroil the State. 1757 T. Smollett Compl. Hist. Eng. I. ii. v. 348 The king being..apprehensive that the earl of Leicester might find means to escape and re-embroil his affairs, ordered that nobleman to be sent over to Normandy. 1826 Ireland in Past Times I. 188 Addresses were transmitted from the army..expressing their resolution of adhering to the protector against all those whose particular animosities endeavoured to re-embroil the public. 1900 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 9 June 4/7 It is no longer in Mr Healy's power to re-embroil the country in dissension. 1987 J. Adnopoz et al. in J. E. Schowalter et al. Children & Death xx. 158 Supervisors and administrators became re-embroiled in expressions of defensiveness, hostility, and anxiety. 1999 Daily Mail 18 Mar. 51 Dakin re-embroiled South Africa's cricketers in the very subject they have so studiously avoided here: racial politics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1647 |
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