Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To entangle; embroil.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To mix confusedly; entangle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To confuse; to entangle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
embroil
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make more complicated or confused through entanglements
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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The word embrangle (to confuse or entangle) won with 1,434 votes, while fubsy (short and stout) came in a distant second.
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The ensuing grassroots campaign failed to save "embrangle" (to confuse or entangle) and "caliginosity" (dimness, darkness).
Jezebel 2009
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It is apodeictic that the caliginosity of the agrestic embrangle periapts with mansuetude.
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And how can you not like: embrangle (em-BRANG-guhl) vert tr.
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The portmanteau terms compossible and embrangle are similarly in the line of fire.
Archive 2008-10-01 Greg Tannahill 2008
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: cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous
Club Troppo 2008
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