embroil
verb (used with object)
to bring into discord or conflict; involve in contention or strife.
were embroiling
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past progressiveof embroil.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Diophanes being afterwards General of the Achaeans, and hearing the Lacedaemonians were bent on new commotions, resolved to chastise them; they, on the other side, being set upon war, were embroiling all Peloponnesus.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
