embroil
verb (used with object)
to bring into discord or conflict; involve in contention or strife.
will embroil
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future tenseof embroil.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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"We need to avoid a major conflict that will embroil the United States or indeed the countries in the region," presidential adviser Anwar Gargash told the US-based Arab Gulf States Institute last Thursday.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2021
"We need to avoid a major conflict that will embroil the United States or indeed the countries in the region," senior UAE official Anwar Gargash told a U.S.-based think-tank on Thursday.
From Reuters ● Dec. 12, 2021
It won't advantage Miss Bilson and will embroil you with the most important of your parishioners.
From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet
Can't you understand yet that Domingo will embroil you with him, and arrange that you will have to fight your way out?
From Long Odds by Harold Bindloss
But the letter is clever, and if Henriot be like other husbands, it will embroil him at once with his wife, Turenne, the Guises, and even with Spain.
From The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas père
