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Embroilment

Embroilment \Em*broil"ment\, n. [Cf. F. embrouillement.] The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil.
--Bp. Burnet.

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embroilment

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

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embroilment

n. an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation [syn: imbroglio]

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Also Koris and Simon, both bolstering as well as they could the dwindling might of the Old Race, saw no advantage in embroilment aboard, but much gain in the anarchy which would keep one of their enemies employed elsewhere.