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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 actionplay

  Familiarity information: EMBROIL used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EMBROIL (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they embroil  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it embroils  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: embroiled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: embroiled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: embroiling  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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