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Verb: embroil  em'broy(-u)l
  1. Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
    "The country was embroiled in a bitter civil war";
    - tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in

Derived forms: embroils, embroiled, embroiling

Type of: involve