What does embroiled mean?
Definitions for embroiled
em·broiled
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Princeton's WordNet
embroiled, entangledadjective
deeply involved especially in something complicated
"embroiled in the conflict"; "felt unwilling entangled in their affairs"
ChatGPT
embroiled
To be involved deeply in a conflict, difficulty, or complicated situation. It can also denote being entangled or entwined in an argument or controversy.
Webster Dictionary
Embroiled
of Embroil
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of embroiled in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of embroiled in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of embroiled in a Sentence
I served, that’s really all it came down to. I guess I didn’t give him many opportunities to spin his web and get me tangled up in it. If I got embroiled in too many rallies with him, it just wasn’t going to go well for me. I had an incredible serving day and I needed every single bit of it to beat him.
China is not a country to make so-called debt traps, you can see which country has been embroiled in debt traps ... not China but United States and Britain.
It is deeply disturbing to have a President in the first 100 days to be embroiled in what may be a scandal, increasingly, it appears with General Flynn now saying he would testify if granted immunity, that really suggests very heavily there is definitely fire and what we have been seeing over the last few weeks is an attempt to cover up fire with smoke.
President Trump , Hayespivoted:
The insidious destructive force of the path of least resistance is everywhere you look, heck, I feel the tug of it President Trump , Hayespivoted as my own news organization is embroiled in a very public controversy over its conduct. EX-NBC NEWS ANCHOR MATT LAUER REPORTEDLY EXPOSED HIMSELF TO TODAY PRODUCER The.
I report in the morning only to be ushered over to the south lawn where Nixon was departing and I saw him board the Air Force One helicopter, i had been following the news and knew his departure was imminent. I felt really bad about it, just as a human being, because he got embroiled in Watergate and the cover-up.
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- verwickeltGerman
- bị lôi kéoVietnamese
- 卷入Chinese
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