Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Embroil

Embroil , transitive verb

[French embrouiller; pref. em- (Latin in) + brouiller. See 1st Broil, and compare Imbroglio.]

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 fable and legend. — Addison

Embroil , noun