embroil
/ɪmˈbrɔɪl
/ /ɛmˈbrɔɪl/verb [with object]
1Involve (someone) deeply in an argument, conflict, or difficult situation: the organization is currently embroiled in running battles with pressure groups the film’s about a journalist who becomes embroiled with a nightclub owner...
- My parents are currently embroiled in much the same thing.
- The National team is currently embroiled in an exhibition tour in B.C. versus Japan.
- We will just throw them into the air and no one will ask again until people are embroiled in litigation.
Synonyms
involve, entangle, ensnare, enmesh, catch up, mix up, bog down, mire
1.1 archaic Bring into a state of confusion or disorder: what merit do you claim for having embroiled everything in which you are concerned?
Derivatives
embroilment
/ /ɛmˈbrɔɪlm(ə)nt / noun ...- ‘The exercise originated from frustration with ‘reliables’ who were continually being arrested for embroilments in trivial crimes and causing delay in our mercenary objectives.
- In truth, if Gil has a skill for extricating himself from such embroilment it is only because he is forever landing himself in it, whether in football or not.
- Indeed the embroilment of India, Poland and so on, is clearly a step along that path.
Origin
Early 17th century: from French embrouiller 'to muddle'.
Rhymes
- signifiable
- signifiant
- signific
- significacio
- significal
- significance
- significance level
- significance test
- significance testing
- significance threshold
- significance value
- significand
- significant
- significant figure
- significant form
- significantly
- significantness
- significant other
- significate
- significatio
- signification
- significational
- bazoo
- bazooka
- bazoom