embroil
verb (used with object)
to bring into discord or conflict; involve in contention or strife.
had embroiled
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past perfectof embroil.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Intervening in the Florida attorney general’s dormant case, he claimed that Oesterlund had embroiled Pursglove’s company in a fraud against the people of Florida.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2016
Last week those deaths had embroiled the Jerusalem government in an increasingly bitter controversy that included charges of a cover-up.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sparta had embroiled Greece in war to put down the ascendency of Athens, but exercised a more tyrannical usurpation than Athens ever meditated.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
A slight quarrel, on account of some Roman merchants who were seized at Carthage for having supplied the enemy with provisions, had embroiled them a little.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Charles Rollin
Thus, by a process similar to that which had embroiled Edward with his French overlord, the King of Scots also was forced to face the alternative of certain war or humiliating surrender.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt
