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Grammar : Verb
Spell : em-broil
Phonetic Transcription : ɛmˈbrɔɪl

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Définition of embroiled

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
Example sentences :
  • He told me once that he had embroiled me with Monsieur by policy.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of the Louis XIV. and The Regency, Complete » by Elizabeth-Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans
  • To be embroiled now might ruin everything, and by a miracle he kept his temper.
  • Extract from : « The Tavern Knight » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Nearly all his life he was embroiled in controversy of one sort or another.
  • Extract from : « Recollections » by David Christie Murray
  • It is not right for them, who are from the country here, to be embroiled with their relatives.
  • Extract from : « The False Chevalier » by William Douw Lighthall
  • At this, I recognized the bearer of that epistle which had embroiled me with the Abbe Montreuil.
  • Extract from : « Devereux, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • The affairs on the continent of Europe were now more than ever embroiled.
  • Extract from : « The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. » by Tobias Smollett
  • I protest I am afraid we shall all be embroiled with parties.
  • Extract from : « The Journal to Stella » by Jonathan Swift
  • The old Arab came in to separate them, and got embroiled himself.
  • Extract from : « The Secrets of a Kuttite » by Edward O. Mousley
  • He would be embroiled in a hundred quarrels, a hundred miseries.
  • Extract from : « Aurora Floyd, Vol. III (of 3) » by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
  • I could not bear to see you embroiled with this rude and boisterous clown.
  • Extract from : « The Chaplain of the Fleet » by Walter Besant and James Rice

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