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embroils

  • present tense form
    of embroil (3rd person singular).
    embroil
    verb (used with object)
    to bring into discord or conflict; involve in contention or strife.

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Milking the quirks of small-town life and the strange workings of faith and superstition, “The Unknown Saint” embroils a cast of droll, deadpan characters in amusing high jinks.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

"Because it embroils us in a legal discussion," Mueller said.

From Fox News ● Jul. 24, 2019

Her death remains a mystery that still embroils some of the most storied figures in this city’s imaginary golden age of intrigue and glamour.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2017

The case that has gotten the greatest attention embroils Benedict himself.

From Time ● Mar. 19, 2010

We have received the Sangleys in their place, with whom the profit of the traffic always embroils us.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various