embrangle
verbEtymology From em- + brangle.
1
To embroil.
- When it came to governments as hostile to Washington as the Sandinista, such an observation embrangles Sigal's larger claim about "official dominance of national and foreign news."2003, Robert S. Leiken, Why Nicaragua Vanished: A Story of Reporters and Revolutionaries:
- Then there was poor Jacob Dodson, the half-witted boy, who ambled about cheerfully, undertaking messages and little helpful odds and ends for every one, which, however, poor Jacob managed always hopelessly to embrangle.1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
- Derived terms
- disembrangle, embranglement