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embroil
c.1600, from Fr.
embrouillier
(cognate with It.
imbrogliare
), from
en-
"in" +
brouiller
"confuse," from O.Fr.
brooillier
(see
broil
(2)). Sense of "involve in a quarrel" is first attested c.1610.
