EMBROIL

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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. Dryden.

2.
v.

To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble. The Christian antiquities at Rome . . . are so embroiled with Addison.

3.
n.

See Embroilment.


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