embrangle

tr.v., -gled, -gling, -gles.
To entangle; embroil.

[EN-¹ + dialectal brangle, to shake, waver, confuse (variant of branle, brandle , from French branler , from Old French brandeler , perhaps from brand, sword; see brandish).]

embranglement em·bran'gle·ment n.

(em-BRANG-guhl)

verb tr.
To embroil or entangle.

Etymology
From en- + brangle (to shake), from French branler (to shake)

Usage
"This particular sentence - which I can already tell will not be anything to brag about by the time we get to the end of it, because it's going to be too long and embrangled - is being composed at 7 a.m. on the 25th of December 1995, so it's a genuine Christmas sentence." — Leon Hale; Still on Deadline on Christmas; The Houston Chronicle; Dec 26, 1995.

"And you, God, why embrangle the spirit in flesh?" — Mary Potter Engel; A Woman of Salt: A Novel; Counterpoint Press; 2001.

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verb

To draw in so that extrication is difficult: catch up, embroil, implicate, involve, mix up, suck. See free/unfree, participate/abstain.

embroil

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The verb has one meaning:

Meaning #1: make more complicated or confused through entanglements
  Synonyms: snarl, snarl up

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