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EMBROIL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does embroil mean?
• EMBROIL (verb)
The verb EMBROIL has 1 sense:
1. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
Familiarity information: EMBROIL used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: embroiled
Past participle: embroiled
-ing form: embroiling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
drag; drag in; embroil; sweep; sweep up; tangle
Context example:
don't drag me into this business
Hypernyms (to "embroil" is one way to...):
involve (engage as a participant)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Derivation:
embroilment (an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation)
Context examples
This tortured moon is embroiled in a gravitational tug-of-war between Jupiter and other Jovian satellites, causing intense tidal heating within its interior.
(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It is a very justifiable cause of a war, to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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