Rumor next and Chance, / And Tumult and Confuſion all imbroild, / And Diſcord with a thouſand various mouths.
Source: wiktionary
Embroil
//ɪmˈbɹɔɪl//
Synonyms for "embroil" (24 found)
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2 entriesderived
7 entriesderived from
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 19 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- وَرَّطَ verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Bulgarian
1 entries- забърквам verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Catalan
4 entries- embolicar verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- embrancar verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- enjoncar verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- enredar verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 使捲入 /使卷入 verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- 牽連 /牵连 verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Czech
2 entries- zaplést verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- zatáhnout verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Finnish
1 entries- sotkea verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
French
1 entries- embourber verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Galician
2 entries- enredar verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- envolver verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
German
2 entries- hineinziehen verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- verwickeln verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Hungarian
2 entries- belekever verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- belesodor verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Italian
1 entries- coinvolgere verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Japanese
1 entries- 巻き込む verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Macedonian
3 entries- вме́ша verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- во́влече verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- за́плетка verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Māori
1 entries- whakahīrau verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Persian
1 entries- گرفتار کردن verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Polish
1 entries- uwikłać się verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Portuguese
1 entries- envolver verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Russian
4 entries- впу́тать verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- впу́тывать verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- втя́гивать verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- втяну́ть verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Spanish
3 entries- enredar verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- entrometer verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
- involucrar verb (to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
Your Enemies had ſo embroyl'd the management of your Office, that they look'd on your Advancement as the Inſtrument of your Ruine.
Source: wiktionary
[It is ill-governed speech] chiefly which perverteth justice, which soweth dissensions, which raiseth all bad passions and animosities, which embroileth the world in seditions and factions, by which men wrong and abuse, deceive and seduce, defame and disgrace one another, […]
Source: wiktionary
There are in Rome Tvvo Sets of Antiquities, the Chriſtian and the Heathen. The former, tho' of a freſher Date, are ſo embroil'd vvith Fable and Legend, that one receives but little Satisfaction from ſearching into 'em.
Source: wiktionary
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