embroil
embroil
Definition
em·broil (em bro̵il′, im-)
em·broil′·ment noun
embroil
Synonyms
embroil
Usage Examples
Object
- country: Scotland's alliance with France was always likely to embroil the country in what became the Hundred Years War.
- nation: Now Mr Blair seeks to embroil the British nation in yet another lie and fantasy.
- man: It eventually involved 57 nations, embroiling men and women from the continents of Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe.
- race: Victor Gibson spent most of the race embroiled in a wild battle with Simon Woodside.
- character: During the journey you will meet all the suspicious characters embroiled in a dastardly plot.
- party: According to this notion, the role of a journalist is not to advocate or defend the actions of any party embroiled in conflict.
Preposition: with
- woman: Brad becomes embroiled with two women when Gaby and Beth ask him to act as mediator for their domestic arguments.
Modifying Another Word
- deeply: Only a few months later, they are deeply embroiled in a savage situation in which three of our boys have already died.
- soon: The two of them are soon embroiled with wine and women.
- again: Yet centuries later Bristol was once again embroiled in that shameful trade.
- currently: Thousands of workers in Thailand are currently embroiled in a row over energy privatization.
- already: The country, already embroiled in a bloody war, has invested £ 300m in a top-secret nuclear weapons facility.
- too: However, UNISON maintains that NHS Scotland is too embroiled in ' partnership ' with private sector companies around key ICT Infrastructure Project.
Preposition: in
- controversy: By Mike Scott Bush special envoy embroiled in controversy over Iraq debt.
- scandal: The Hall has a checkered past, embroiled in a royal scandal in the 17th century.
- dispute: Halifax has become embroiled in the dispute through its takeover of Leeds Permanent, which owned Sussex County building society.
- row: In January, Russia was embroiled in a bitter row with Ukraine over gas supplies.
- battle: Victor Gibson spent most of the race embroiled in a wild battle with Simon Woodside.
- plot: Or will they get embroiled in a plot to liberate the people from the tyranny of the wicked Master Gear?
Browse dictionary entries near embroil
- embroidery
- embroider
- embrocation
- embrocate
- embrasure
- embrangle
- embranchment
- embracery
- embraceor
- embrace
- embrown
- embrue
- embryectomy
- embryo
- embryo-
- embryo sac
- embryogeny
- embryology
- embryonic
- embryonic membrane
