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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“Facts had often been casualties in Vietnam,” White notes of America’s long embroilment in the country, and the war’s final act was no exception.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023
I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so "in it", you couldn't even call it an art, it's such embroilment.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2013
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
What the peace-makers might logically be expected to concern themselves about would be the elimination of these discrepancies that make for embroilment.
From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen
