embrangle

English

Etymology

From em- + brangle.

Verb

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

1. 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.

Derived terms

• embranglement

Dear Sir, If you knew but half of the perplexities, with which ... I have been be-thorned and embrangled, you would rather wonder that I retained any presence of mind at all ... (Letter from S.T. Coleridge to J. Payne Collier, 2 February 1818)