embrangle

An obsolete verb meaning to confuse, entangle, or perplex; to throw into disorder or dispute.

• 🇫🇷Verbe vieilli signifiant embrouiller, dérouter ou troubler ; semer la confusion ou la discorde.

1. To confuse or complicate C2 formal british

   To make something more complicated or confused, often by involving it in entanglements or disputes.

   • The legal dispute only served to embrangle the situation further.
   • His attempts to clarify the matter only embrangled the issue.
   • The conflicting reports embrangled the investigation.

   🇫🇷Embrouiller, complexifier

   Synonymes: complicateconfuseembroilenmeshentangleinvolvemuddleperplexsnarltangle

   Antonymes: clarifydisembroildisentangleextricatesimplifyunraveluntangle

• embrangled past participle
• embrangled past simple
• embrangling present participle
• embrangles third person singular