embrangle

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verb

To embroil.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

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

present singular third person embrangles · participle present embrangling · participle past embrangled · past embrangled

  1. transitiveTo embroil.

    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."

    2003, Robert S. Leiken, Why Nicaragua Vanished: A Story of Reporters and Revolutionaries
    1 more example

    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.

    1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days

Synonyms & antonyms

verbmake more complicated or confused through entanglements

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Old Frenchen-
  6. Middle Englishen-
  7. Englishem-
  8. Englishbrangle
  9. Englishembrangle

From em- + brangle.

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APA

embrangle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embrangle

MLA

“embrangle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embrangle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “embrangle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embrangle.

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