embroiling
present participle ofembroil
embroil
verb[T]
uk/ɪmˈbrɔɪl/us/ɪmˈbrɔɪl/tocausesomeone tobecomeinvolvedin anargumentor adifficultsituation:
She had nodesireto embroil herselfinlengthylawsuitswith thetabloidnewspapers.
TheUnitedNationswasreluctantto getitsforcesembroiledincivilwar.
Synonym
dragsomeoneintosomething
Compare
get caught up insomething(catch)
Taking part and getting involved
- actor
- all in
- along
- attendee
- be (a) party tosomethingidiom
- catch
- concern
- go in onsomething
- hat
- have a horse in the raceidiom
- have skin in the gameidiom
- immersion
- muscle
- neck
- pitch in
- plunge
- plunge in/plunge intosomething
- punch above your weightidiom
- re-engage
- thick
Examplesofembroiling
embroiling
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Finally, parliaments were rarefied arenas,embroilingthose elected to them in procedures, spaces, techniques, networks, factions, and contingent issues that necessarily distanced representatives from their representative source.
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We have borne in mind the real risks ofembroilingchildren in disputes and of burdening them with individual decisions.
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It may be that occasionally they do not mindembroilingus in little bits of trouble, when it suits their book.
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It could have blasted all the nations of the world out of their narrow parochialism and the petty issues which areembroilingforeign affairs today.
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He may remember my saying to him on one occasion that one day he might beembroilinghimself with winter keep.
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It has often been said that it is difficult to frame a law of trespass withoutembroilinginnocent parties.
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Surely, it would be better to address the main points at issue through such a code rather thanembroilingindustry in further statutory provisions of that kind.
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Stieglitz spent most of 1900 finding ways to outmaneuver these efforts,embroilinghim in the very administrative battles that he so strongly wanted to avoid.
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