Embroilment

Definition: Embroilment

Embroilment

Noun

1. An intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "embroilment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Etymology: Embroilment \Em*broil"ment\, noun. [Compare to the French expression embrouillement.]. (references)

Synonym: Embroilment

Discord

Broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation; embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance; (disorder); commotion; (agitation); bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair.

Disorder

Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.

Books

• The great chili confrontation; a dramatic history of the decade's most impassioned culinary embroilment, with recipes (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

sharje (abuse, animadversion, bad language, chastisement, curse, damn, dispraise, dressing down, invective, lashing, mudslinging, oath, obscenities, quarrel, scolding, swear word, swearing, talking to, vituperation, wigging), ngatërrim (bewilderment, confusion, embarrassment, entanglement, implication, involution, jumble, mess, mingle-mangle, mixing, mixture, muddiness, muss), ngatërresë (complication, confusion, entanglement, hindrance, huddle, imbroglio, intricacy, mess, mix, moil, muddle, Mull, network, nodus, nonsense, nuisance, obstruction, quarrel, Ravel, razzle, razzle-dazzle, toss). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نزاع (contention, contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, discord, discordance, disputation, dispute, division, duel, fray, odds, quarrel, question, row, spar, squall, strife, struggle, tangle, variance, wont), ‏تورط (be embroiled, concern, dip, get into hot water, get involved, get stuck, involvement, mire, mix, set in motion). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усложнение (complication, difficulty, involvement, knot, ramification), скарване (difference, spat, tiff), разпра (difficulty), въвличане (implication), объркване (abashment, addlement, bewilderment, commotion, confusion, discomfiture, dislocation, embarrassment, entanglement, fuddle, involution, maze, stir, tizzy, tumble), заплитане (entanglement), безредие (anarchy, clutter, disarray, disorder, imbroglio, misrule, negligence, pandemonium, pell mell, untidiness). (various references)

Czech

zmatek (anarchy, bewilderment, chaos, circus, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, fluster, hash, hodge-podge, jumble, maze, mess up, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, nonplus, non-plus, pandemonium, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, shambles, stew, tangle, tempest, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnup, upset, welter). (various references)

French

mêlée, implication. (various references)

German

verwicklung (complication, confusion, entanglement, imbroglio, implication, intricacy, intrigue, involvement). (various references)

Greek 

σύγχυση (bewilderment, clutter, confusion, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disorientation, fogginess, hugger mugger, mix up, muss, perplexity, tumble, welter), εμπλοκή (imbroglio, involution, involvement, jam). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"סתבכות (entanglement, involvement). (various references)

Hungarian

zûrzavar (chaos, clutter, confusion, disorder, helter-skelter, huddle, hurly burly, jumble, maze, melee, mess, muddle, muss, pandemonium, snafu, tumult, turbulence). (various references)

Manx

co-voirey (embroil). (various references)

Pig Latin

embroilmentay.(various references)

Portuguese

enredo (chicane, circumvention, design, fable, fairytale, involvement, node, overreach, plot, scenario, snarl, story, tangle, web), embrulhada (gallimaufry, imbroglio, intricacy, involution, moil, muddle, mull, puddle), confusão (baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, confusion, daze, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disturbance, donnybrook, entanglement, fog, foul-up, fuddle, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, kettle of fish, labyrinth, macaroni, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix-up, moil, muddle, mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell-mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, ravel, rough-and-tumble, rout, shuffle, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), complicação (complicacy, complication, difficulty, intricacy, involution, involvement, perplexity, ravel, tangle). (various references)

Romanian

confuzie (bewilderment, blankness, clutter, confusion, disorder, distraction, fuss, haziness, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, mix up, muddle, obfuscation, shuffle, storm, tumble), amestecare (amalgamation, immixture, mixture, shuffle), învrãjbire (feud). (various references)

Russian 

вовлечение в ссору, запутанность (complexity, complication, inextricably, intricacy), путаница (addlement, bewilderment, box-up, hash, imbroglio, maze, mess, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix, mix up, mix-up, moil, muddiness, muss, order confusion, ramble, snafu, snafus, welter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

upletenost (immixture, implication). (various references)

Spanish

enredo (build up, do, entanglement, hanky panky, involvement, jam, love affair, maze, mess, muddle, plot, Ravel, tangle), embrollo (confusion, entanglement, fix, fraud, imbroglio, jam, muddle, tangle, trick), lo de embrollo. (various references)

Swedish

trassel (chaos, entanglement, foul, mess up, Ravel, snarl, snarl up, tangle, trouble), oreda (confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganization, distraction, disturbance, hurry-scurry, mess, muddle, Ravel, shambles, tangle), förveckling (complication, entanglement). (various references)

Turkish

karışma (interference, interposition, intervention, involvement, meddling, mind your own business, mix, mixing, mixture), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), bozuşma (disagreement, dissension, quarrel, rent, split, strife), anlaşmazlık (conflict, controversy, disaccord, disagreement, discord, discordance, dissension, disunion, disunity, divided counsel, division, fight, friction, imbroglio, incompatiblity, mix up, odds, quarrel, run in, strife). (various references)

Ukrainian

сварка (altercation, broil, controversy, jangle, muss, odds, quarrel, shindy, squabble, upset), розбрат, заплутування, заплутаність (anfractuosity, complexity, complicacy, complication, embarrassment, entanglement, intricacy, involution, perplexity, plexus), плутанина (boggle, confusion, derangement, hubbub, hurly burly, intricacy, involute, jumble, maze, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, pellmell, puddle, skein, snarl, snarl up, tangle, wooliness, woolliness). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "embroilment": embroilments. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: timbermen.

-3 letters: bromelin.

-4 letters: berline, bornite, bromine, ebonite, eloiner, embroil, memento, motlier, nimbler, nombril, onetime, retinol, temblor, timbrel, tremble, trommel.

-5 letters: belier, belter, bemire, berime, berlin, betime, bireme, boiler, bolete, boleti, bolter, bonier, boreen, bromin, elmier, emblem, emboli, emetin, emoter, enrobe, entire, entoil, entomb, ermine, etoile, intomb, lierne, limber, limmer, limner, linter, loiter, lomein.

+1 letter: embroilments.