Usually means: Involve deeply in an argument.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. embroil: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. embroil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. embroil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. embroil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. embroil: Vocabulary.com
  6. embroil: Wordnik
  7. embroil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. embroil: Wiktionary
  9. embroil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. embroil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. embroil: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Embroil, embroil: Dictionary.com
  13. embroil: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. embroil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Embroil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. embroil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. embroil: Rhymezone
  18. Embroil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. embroil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. embroil: Free Dictionary
  21. embroil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. embroil: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. embroil: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embroil: Legal dictionary

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  1. embroil: Encyclopedia

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  1. embroil: Idioms

(Note: See embroiled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (embroil)

verb:  To bring (something) into a state of confusion or uproar; to complicate, to confuse, to jumble.
verb:  To cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention.
noun:  A state of confusion or uproar; a commotion, a disturbance; also, a quarrel.
noun:  A state of anxiety or disturbance of the mind.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, rare) To set (something) on fire; to burn (something).

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