Embroiled

Definition: Embroiled

Embroiled

Adjective

1. Deeply involved especially in something complicated; "embroiled in the conflict"; "felt unwilling entangled in their affairs".

Date "embroiled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references)

Synonym: Embroiled

Synonym: entangled (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discord	At odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Embroiled

English words defined with "embroiled": Counterturn. (references)

Specialty definitions using "embroiled": Dying Sayings. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	(Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	United Arab Emirates	This area was converted to Islam in the 7th century; for centuries it was embroiled in dynastic disputes. (references)
	North Korea	North Korea tried to avoid becoming embroiled in the Sino-Soviet split, obtaining aid from both the Soviet Union and China and trying to avoid dependence on either. (references)
	Tajikistan	This rule waned briefly after the Russian Revolution of 1917 as the Bolsheviks consolidated their power and were embroiled in a civil war in other regions of the former Russian Empire. (references)
Human Rights	Kazakhstan	Oleg Okhulkov, a lawyer known to provide legal assistance to opposition figures, has been held in pretrial detention since December 18, 2000. Okhulkov was retained by the Rauza company, which was embroiled in a civil suit for the non-fulfillment of a contract with a second firm. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Embroiled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 79.25% of the time. "Embroiled" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	79.25%	42	52,864
Lexical Verb (past tense)	20.75%	11	106,044
Total	100.00%	53	N/A

Expressions using "embroiled": be embroiled ♦ become embroiled in smth. ♦ get embroiled ♦ get embroiled in. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "embroiled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i ngatërruar (embarrassing, entangled, haywire, immersed, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mixed, muddy, tangly, tricky, woozy). (various references)

Arabic		‏متورط (engaged, entangled, implicated, involved). (various references)

Bulgarian		въвлечен, забъркан (complex, complicated, inextricable, intricate, involved). (various references)

Chinese		卷入 (Embroil, Embroiling, Entangle, Entangled, Entangling). (various references)

Czech		zmatený (addle-brained, addle-pated, bemused, bewildered, chaotic, confused, disordered, in confusion, mazy, mixed, muddy, screwed up, turbid). (various references)

French		mêlé, impliqué. (various references)

German		werickelt, verwickelte (implicated, involuted, involved). (various references)

Hebrew		מסוכסך (incited, indented, instigated, involved). (various references)

Hungarian		zavarodott (confused, disconcerted, distracted, distraught, to be ill at ease, woolly-minded). (various references)

Pig Latin		embroileday

Russian		запутанный (anfractuous, complected, complicated, crinkum-crankum, Daedalian, entangled, implex, inextricable, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, perplexed, tangly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		upetljan (entangled, involved, tangly). (various references)

Spanish		embrollado (mazy, perplexed, scrambled). (various references)

Turkish		karmakarışık (all in a tumble, all mixed up, at sixes and sevens, chaotic, confused, disheveled, dishevelled, haywire, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly burly, in complete disorder, intricate, mess, messy, mussy, out of order, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, snafu), bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, doric, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, upset, vicious, wrong). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Embroiled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: embroided, embroild, Merofled. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "embroiled" (pronounced embroy"ld)
5	-b r oy" l d	broiled.
4	-r oy" l d	roiled.
3	-oy" l d	boiled, coiled, foiled, oiled, recoiled, soiled, spoiled, toiled, uncoiled, unspoiled.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-i-l-m-o-r"
	-1 letter: embodier, erodible, limbered, rebeldom, reboiled.
	-2 letters: bemired, berimed, broiled, bromide, embroil, emeroid, modeler, moldier, remodel, reoiled.
	-3 letters: belied, belier, bemire, berime, bireme, birled, boiled, boiler, bolder, bolide, bordel, boride, bridle, bromid, delime, dormie, edible, elmier, emboli, emerod, lieder, limbed, limber, melder, meloid, milder, milord, mobile, mobled, moiled, moiler, molder, morbid, oreide, reboil, relied, remold, roiled.
	-4 letters: bedel, bedim, belie, berme, bider, bield, biome, birle, bleed, bored, brede, breed, bride, broil, brome, demob, dimer, dobie, edile, eider, elder, elemi, elide, embed, ember, erode, idler, imbed, liber, limbo, limed, lobed, merde, merle, miler, mired, model, moire, morel, obeli, oiled, oiler, older, oldie, omber, ombre, orbed, oriel, rebel, rebid, reoil, riled, rimed, robed, roble.
	-5 letters: beer, berm, bide, bier, bile, bird, birl, bled, bode, boil, bold, bole, bore, bred, bree, brie, brim, brio, deem, deer, deil, dele, deli, deme, demo, dere, derm, diel, dime, diol, dire, dirl, doer, dole, dome, dore, dorm, dree, drib, eide, emir, idem, idle, idol, ired, leer, lido, lied, lier, limb, lime, limo, lire, lobe, lode, lord, lore, meed, meld, mere, merl, mild, mile, milo, mire, mode, modi, moil, mold, mole, more, omer, orle, rede, redo, reed, reel, ride, riel, rile, rime, robe, rode, roil, role.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-i-l-m-o-r"
	+2 letters: remobilized.
	+3 letters: imponderable, timberdoodle.
	+4 letters: imponderables, timberdoodles.
	+5 letters: comprehendible, formidableness, indemonstrable.
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