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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

... indignantly exclaimed, "you mustn't try to embroil me in your quarrels. You must apologize. You are talking ...

— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck

... the Stuarts was gone. While that cause had hope he was willing to give it a chance, and he would naturally have welcomed its success; but he had taken good care during its late and vain effort not to embroil himself in any quarrel, or even any misunderstanding, with England on its account; and now that that poor struggle was over for the time, he believed that it would be for his interest to come to ...

— A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) • Justin McCarthy

... regime; but she remembers that French prestige fell before English prestige on the Plains of Abraham. The second motive is an unconscious feeling of detachment from British Imperial affairs. Why should French Canada embroil herself and give of her blood and means for a race alien to herself in speech and religion? The Monroe Doctrine forever defends Canada from seizure by European power. Why not rest under that defense and build up a purely Canadian ...

— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut

... the renowned chief of the Secret Service was explaining the latest conspiracy afoot against England, a serious conspiracy hatched in both Berlin and Vienna to embroil our nation in complications in the Far East. Darnborough's agents in both capitals had that morning arrived at Downing Street post-haste and reported upon what was in progress, with the result that their chief had come to place before ...

— The White Lie • William Le Queux

... and fearless; and his bold, imperturbable expression had placed him in a fierce white light, which barred him from the promotion of party conventions. While his enemies were accusing him of a desire to destroy the Union and embroil the sections, Robert Toombs was probably cherishing in his heart a vague hope that one day he might be called to the presidency ...

— Robert Toombs - Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage • Pleasant A. Stovall

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