embroilment

noun

Etymology

From embroil + -ment.

  1. derived from *bʰrewh₁-✻ — “to boil; to brew”
  2. derived from *bruþą✻ — “stock, broth”
  3. derived from *broþ✻ — “broth”
  4. derived from brodium — “broth, stew; mixture”
  5. derived from *brodiculāre✻
  6. borrowed from embrouiller — “to entangle”
  7. suffixed as embroilment — “embroil + ment”

Definitions

  1. The condition of being embroiled in something

    The condition of being embroiled in something; an imbroglio or entanglement.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for embroilment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA