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EMBROILED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does embroiled mean?
• EMBROILED (adjective)
The adjective EMBROILED has 1 sense:
1. deeply involved especially in something complicated
Familiarity information: EMBROILED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deeply involved especially in something complicated
Synonyms:
embroiled; entangled
Context example:
felt unwilling entangled in their affairs
Similar:
involved (connected by participation or association or use)
Context examples
This tortured moon is embroiled in a gravitational tug-of-war between Jupiter and other Jovian satellites, causing intense tidal heating within its interior.
(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It is a very justifiable cause of a war, to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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