Embroil Definition & Meaning

Origin of Embroil

French embrouiller en- intensive pref. en–¹ brouiller to confuse (from Old French broil²)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Borrowing from French embrouiller.

From Wiktionary

They never undarstood one another, and never consulted together in hours of danger, save to embroil matters in politics as in war.
His expectations of the cardinalate were disappointed by Pius V.'s death in 1572, and Sanders spent the next few years at Madrid trying to embroil Philip II., who gave him a pension of 300 ducats, in open war with Elizabeth.
Meanwhile, Thiers issued a proclamation pointing out that a Republic would embroil France with all Europe, while the duke of Orleans, who was "a prince devoted to the principles of the Revolution" and had "carried the tricolour under fire" would be a "citizen king" such as the country desired.
In the words of Saint-Simon, the Huguenots were " a sect that had become a state within the state, dependent on the king no more than it chose, and ready on the slightest pretext to embroil the whole country by an appeal to arms."
But Urban was too politic to embroil himself with the king of England, and Anselm found that he could obtain no substantial result.

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