embroil
verb (used with object)
to bring into discord or conflict; involve in contention or strife.
embroilment
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a word derived from
embroil.
Example Sentences
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Although McElvaine acknowledges these rationales and motivations, particularly Johnson’s fear of looking politically weak, he places far too much stress on Johnson’s “manly” ego to explain America’s embroilment in Vietnam.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
The Russian public is as averse to embroilment in foreign wars as any public anywhere.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2016
Park Slope, Brooklyn, continues its embroilment over a new bike lane along Prospect Park West that is now the subject of a suit against the Transportation Department.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2011
This—Gawker Media’s surreal embroilment in the Gamergate sweepstakes—was hardly an editorial retraction, because there was nothing much to retract, aside from a bad tweet.
From Newsweek
To Leicester, then, we may be sure, he went,—to find him, and the whole Court with him, in the throes of the Queen's latest and final matrimonial embroilment.
From Raleigh by Andrew Lang
