embrangle

English

Etymology

em- +‎ brangle

Verb

1. (transitive) To embroil.
   • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     The ignorance of Natural Science, their Physiography scant in fact and stuffed out with fables, their Physiology embrangled with an inapplicable Logic […]

   • 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