Embrangle

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To embroil. transitive

    "When it came to governments as hostile to Washington as the Sandinista, such an observation embrangles Sigal's larger claim about "official dominance of national and foreign news.""

  2. 2
    make more complicated or confused through entanglements wordnet

Example

More examples

"When it came to governments as hostile to Washington as the Sandinista, such an observation embrangles Sigal's larger claim about "official dominance of national and foreign news.""

Etymology

From em- + brangle.

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