Embroil

Part of speech: noun (n.)

See Embroilment.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife. The royal house embroiled in civil war. Dryden.

2. To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble. The Christian antiquities at Rome . . . are so embroiled with Addison.

Synonyms: perplex; entangle; distract; disturb; disorder; trouble; implicate; commingle.