embrangle

English

Etymology

em- + brangle

Verb

embrangle (third-person singular simple present embrangles, present participle embrangling, simple past and past participle embrangled)

  1. (transitive) To embroil.
    • 2003, Robert S. Leiken, Why Nicaragua Vanished: A Story of Reporters and Revolutionaries:
      When it came to governments as hostile to Washington as the Sandinista, such an observation embrangles Sigal's larger claim about "official dominance of national and foreign news."
    • 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
      Then there was poor Jacob Dodson, the half-witted boy, who ambled about cheerfully, undertaking messages and little helpful odds and ends for every one, which, however, poor Jacob managed always hopelessly to embrangle.

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