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verb

Embroil v. t. (past & past part. embroiled; pres. part. embroiling)

To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife. "The royal house embroiled in civil war."

To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble. "The Christian antiquities at Rome... are so embroiled with fable and legend."

Synonyms: To perplex; entangle; distract; disturb; disorder; trouble; implicate; commingle.

noun

Embroil n. See Embroilment.

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Etymology of 'Embroil'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Embroil" Quotes from Famous Books

... stiff and erect, and giving him back look for look, something perhaps of the loathing with which he inspired me imprinted on my face, "my lord, you give yourself idle alarms. Ser Cosimo is too cautious to embroil himself." ...

— The Strolling Saint • Raphael Sabatini

... that they might enter on those counsels which were necessary without having further recourse to him, especially as at that very moment he was secretly treating with the Scottish commissioners, how he might embroil the nation in a new war, and destroy the Parliament. The king was removed to Hurst Castle after a vain attempt by Captain ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee

... speculating bookseller made, for leave to publish his looser compositions; he had refused an offer of the like sum yearly, from Perry of the Morning Chronicle, for poetic contributions to his paper, lest it might embroil him with the ruling powers, and he had resented the remittance of five pounds from Thomson, on account of his lyric contributions, and desired him to do so no more, unless he wished to quarrel with him; but his necessities ...

— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

... registry all the German and Austrian ships that were then lying unoccupied in American ports and using them in trade between the United States and the Central Powers. If Great Britain seized the Dacia, then there was the likelihood that this would embroil her with the American Government—and this would serve German purposes ...

— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I • Burton J. Hendrick

... indeed; I endeavoured to amuse him more, and told him, that for France, England did not care to have it; it would be but a charge and no benefit to them, and embroil them in ...

— A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. • Bulstrode Whitelocke

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