embroil

Borrowed from French embrouiller.

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbɹɔɪl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪəl, -ɔɪl

embroil (third-person singular simple present embroils, present participle embroiling, simple past and past participle embroiled)

1. To draw into a situation; to cause to be involved.

   Avoid him. He will embroil you in his fights.

   • 2016 January 31, "Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?," Vanity Fair (retrieved 21 January 2016):

     Whether it’s palatable for the vice-chairman of Hillary’s presidential campaign to be embroiled in allegations of conflicts of interest, obtaining patronage jobs, or misrepresenting time worked remains to be seen.

   • Dryden

     the royal house embroiled in civil war

2. To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.
   • Addison

     The Christian antiquities at Rome […] are so embroiled with fable and legend.