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What (who) is embroil - definition
embroil
(embroils, embroiling, embroiled)
If someone embroils you in a fight or an argument, they get you deeply involved in it.
Any hostilities could result in retaliation and further embroil U.N. troops in fighting.
VERB: V n in n, also V n
embroil
v. a.
1.
Entangle, ensnarl, implicate, commingle, involve.
2.
Disturb, perplex, confuse, distract, trouble, disorder, discompose, throw into disorder, bring into difficulty.
Embroil
·noun ·see Embroilment.
III. Embroil ·vt 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.
Examples of use of embroil
1. "Implementing this treaty would embroil the Catholic church into Slovak secular affairs."
2. The scandal is the latest to embroil the country’s political classes.
3. It will only embroil the party in secondary issues, and the latest crisis is a case in point.
4. And why is the Prime Minister‘s wife so eager to champion the expansion and embroil herself further?
5. The latest controversy to embroil the premier involves international lawyer David Mills, the husband of British cabinet minister Tessa Jowell.