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embrangle en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English em- English brangle English embrangle From em- + brangle.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To embroil.
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Deriveds

embranglement · disembrangle