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Definition of embroiled : of Embroil

Synonyms:

deadlocked, involved, up against something, oppressed, stuck, out of your depth, beleaguered, pressed, in deep trouble, entangled, worse off

shapeless, disorganized, cluttered, lax, insane, irregular, incoherent, confused, disarrayed, tumultuous, indefinite, out of control, formless, deformed, perturbed, unruly, deranged, undisciplined, wild, messy, frantic, loose, chaotic, tempestuous, disconnected, discomposed, disordered, rambunctious, inconsistent, blurry, indistinct, muddled, obscure, lawless, jumbled, frenzied, inchoate, fuzzy, amorphous, disorderly, anarchical, disheveled, inexact, uneven, anarchistic, disintegrated

Usage examples:

• This writing embroiled the author with the entire body of the Venetian nobility. - "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.
• The siege continuing long, Antigonus received advice that Antipater was dead in Macedon, and that affairs were embroiled by the differences of Cassander and Polysperchon, upon which he conceived no mean hopes, purposing to make himself master of all, and, in order to his design, thought to bring over Eumenes, that he might have his advice and assistance. - "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans", Clough, Arthur Hugh.
• In the thirteenth century a young man like Bacon could hardly stand alone, and Bacon joined the Franciscans, but before many years elapsed he embroiled himself with his superiors. - "The Emancipation of Massachusetts", Brooks Adams.