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},
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"name": "cog"
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"2": "embrollar"
},
"expansion": "Spanish embrollar",
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"form": "embroils",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "embroiling",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
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"form": "embroiled",
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"past"
]
},
{
"form": "embroiled",
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"past"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "conjugation",
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"table-tags"
]
},
{
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},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "broil"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "imbroglio"
}
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"ref": "1866, Euripides, translated by E. S. Crooke, The Ion of Euripides, […], Cambridge: J. Hall and Son; London: Whittaker & Co; Simpkin, Marshall & Co. and Bell and Daldy, →OCLC, page 28, lines 611–616",
"text": "[H]ow shall I fail to be naturally hated by her, when I stand by thee near thy foot, and she, childless as she is, beholds thy beloved one with bitter jealousy, and then either thou abandonest me and hast regard to thy wife, or upholdest me, and embroilest thy house?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Richard J. Lane, “The Counter-canonical Novel: J. M. Coetzee’s Foe and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea”, in The Postcolonial Novel, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, page 23",
"text": "Susan is caught up in a plot that already exists, a type of predestination, but she is also disruptive of that plot, embroiling it by making undecidable a series of otherwise clear-cut oppositions: […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To bring (something) into a state of confusion or uproar; to complicate, to confuse, to jumble."
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"bring",
"bring#Verb"
],
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"state",
"state#Noun"
],
[
"confusion",
"confusion"
],
[
"uproar",
"uproar#Noun"
],
[
"complicate",
"complicate#Verb"
],
[
"confuse",
"confuse"
],
[
"jumble",
"jumble#Verb"
]
],
"tags": [
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},
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Avoid him. He will embroil you in his fights.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1996, Susan Leigh Foster, “Pygmalion’s No-body and the Body of Dance”, in Elin Diamond, editor, Performance and Cultural Politics, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, part III (Moving/Seeing: Bodies and Technologies), page 132",
"text": "The effects of dance's narrativization continue to reverberate throughout the contemporary world of dance where the opposition between \"abstract\" and \"representational\" movement vocabularies embroils choreographers and critics in endless dilemmas concerning dance's significance.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 November 1, Alan Young, “Sean Connery obituary: From delivering milk in Fountainbridge to the definitive James Bond”, in The Scotsman, Edinburgh: The Scotsman Publications, JPIMedia Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-20",
"text": "[Sean] Connery could by now command massive fees and gained a reputation as a ruthless contract negotiator. He hated the idea of being manipulated by the film industry and was regularly embroiled in lawsuits.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention."
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[
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[
"involve",
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[
"difficult",
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[
"situation",
"situation"
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[
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"translations": [
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"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "warraṭa",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "وَرَّطَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zabǎrkvam",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "забърквам"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "embolicar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "embrancar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "enjoncar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "enredar"
},
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"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "牽連"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiānlián",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "牵连"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "使捲入"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǐ juànrù",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "使卷入"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "zaplést"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "zatáhnout"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "sotkea"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "embourber"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "enredar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "envolver"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "hineinziehen"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "verwickeln"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "coinvolgere"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"alt": "まきこむ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "makikomu",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "巻き込む"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vóvleče",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "во́влече"
},
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"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vméša",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "вме́ша"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zápletka",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "за́плетка"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "whakahīrau"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "gereftâr kardan",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "گرفتار کردن"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "uwikłać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "envolver"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vpútyvatʹ",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "впу́тывать"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vpútatʹ",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "впу́тать"
},
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"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "vtjágivatʹ",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "втя́гивать"
},
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"_dis1": "5 95",
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"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "втяну́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "enredar"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "entrometer"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 95",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention",
"word": "involucrar"
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"ipa": "/ɪmˈbɹɔɪl/",
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"ipa": "/ɛm-/",
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},
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"ipa": "/əmˈbɹɔɪl/",
"tags": [
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},
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"ipa": "/ɛm-/",
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"rhymes": "-ɔɪl"
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"name": "cog"
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{
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"2": "embrollar"
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"A state of confusion or uproar; a commotion, a disturbance; also, a quarrel."
],
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],
[
"commotion",
"commotion"
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[
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[
"quarrel",
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"A state of anxiety or disturbance of the mind."
],
"id": "en-embroil-en-noun-352jA7Px",
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"anxiety",
"anxiety"
],
[
"disturbance",
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[
"mind",
"mind#Noun"
]
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