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Embroil vs Broil - What's the difference?

embroil | broil |

As verbs the difference between embroil and broil

is that embroil is to draw into a situation; to cause to be involved while broil is to cook by direct, radiant heat.

As a noun broil is

food prepared by broiling.

embroil

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To draw into a situation; to cause to be involved.
  • Avoid him. He will embroil you in his fights.
  • * Dryden
  • the royal house embroiled in civil war
  • To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.
  • * Addison
  • The Christian antiquities at Rome are so embroiled with fable and legend.

    broil

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cook by direct, radiant heat.
  • To expose to great heat.
  • To be exposed to great heat.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Food prepared by broiling.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil
  • (obsolete) to brawl
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2
  • So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
  • * Burke
  • I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please.
  • * 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
  • Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.

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