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Verb: embroil  em'broy(-u)l
  1. Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
    "They were embroiled up by the events";
    - tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in

Derived forms: embroiled, embroiling, embroils

Type of: involve

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