embrangle, imbrangle, v.
(ɛm-, ɪmˈbræŋg(ə)l)
[f. en-, in- + brangle v.]
trans. To entangle, confuse, perplex.
| 1664 Butler Hud. ii. iii. 19 In knotted Law, like Nets..they are imbrangled. 1689 Trial, Pritchard v. Papillon 6 Nov. 1684, 26 These things..imbrangled by our Factions and Divisions. 1710 Berkeley Princ. Human Knowl. i. §98, I am..embrangled in inexplicable difficulties. 1811 Coleridge Lett. in J. P. Collier 7 Lectures (1856) 57 The perplexities with which..I have been thorned and embrangled. 1872 Morley Voltaire ii. (ed. 2) 62 Physical explanations..were imbrangled with..metaphysics. |