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embrangled

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em⋅bran⋅gle

  [em-brang-guhl]
Use embrangled in a Sentence
–verb (used with object), -gled, -gling.
to embroil.
Also, imbrangle.

Origin:
1655–65; em- 1 + brangle (b. brawl and wrangle )

Related forms:
em⋅bran⋅gle⋅ment, noun
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em·bran·gle   (ěm-brāng'gəl)   
tr.v.   em·bran·gled, em·bran·gling, em·bran·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).]
em·bran'gle·ment n.
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