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EMBROILMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does embroilment mean?
• EMBROILMENT (noun)
The noun EMBROILMENT has 1 sense:
1. an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation
Familiarity information: EMBROILMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
embroilment; imbroglio
Hypernyms ("embroilment" is a kind of...):
situation (a complex or critical or unusual difficulty)
Derivation:
embroil (force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action)
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