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Grammar : Verb |
Spell : em-broil |
Phonetic Transcription : ɛmˈbrɔɪl |
Definition of embroil
Origin :- c.1600, "throw into disorder," from French embrouillier (cognate of Italian imbrogliare), from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + brouiller "confuse," from Old French brooillier (see broil (v.2)). Sense of "involve in a quarrel" is first attested c.1610. Related: Embroiled; embroiling.
- verb involve in dispute; complicate
- In any case I shall not embroil them with each other as you would.
- Extract from : « A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales » by Guy De Maupassant
- The man whom he knew to be his rival was about to embroil himself with everybody.
- Extract from : « Before the Dawn » by Joseph Alexander Altsheler
- Would it make her heart lighter to have you embroil yourself for her sake?
- Extract from : « The Diamond Coterie » by Lawrence L. Lynch
- "If continued, these wars will embroil all the tribes of the West," said Clark.
- Extract from : « The Conquest » by Eva Emery Dye
- They only help us for money, and they wish only to embroil the world in war.
- Extract from : « Eve to the Rescue » by Ethel Hueston
- She forbade them, I understand, because they were likely to embroil her in unnecessary wars.
- Extract from : « Changing China » by William Gascoyne-Cecil
- As a like conduct might embroil you with your hosts, you will change your abode from time to time.
- Extract from : « Ecce Homo! » by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
- This latter course could only tend to embroil France with Italy.
- Extract from : « A History of the Third French Republic » by C. H. C. Wright
- And this is why she strives to embroil your country with Japan and Mexico.
- Extract from : « The Moonlit Way » by Robert W. Chambers
- It was desirable to embroil as few as possible in the Lancaster dispute.
- Extract from : « The Plow-Woman » by Eleanor Gates
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