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单词 embrangle
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embrangle

[ em-brang-guhl ]
/ ɛmˈbræŋ gəl /
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verb (used with object), em·bran·gled, em·bran·gling.

to embroil.
Also imbrangle.

Origin of embrangle

1655–65; em-1 + brangle (blend of brawl and wrangle)

OTHER WORDS FROM embrangle

em·bran·gle·ment, noun

Words nearby embrangle

embrace, embraceor, embracery, embracive, embranchment, embrangle, embrasure, embrittle, embrittlement, embrocate, embrocation
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Example sentences from the Web for embrangle

  • And therefore he is not worth to the world that I should embroil and embrangle myself in his interests.

    Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2)|Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British Dictionary definitions for embrangle

embrangle
/ (ɪmˈbræŋɡəl) /

verb

(tr) rare to confuse or entangle

Derived forms of embrangle

embranglement, noun

Word Origin for embrangle

C17: from em- + obsolete brangle to wrangle, perhaps a blend of brawl 1 + wrangle
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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