Embroil vs Broil - What's the difference?
embroil | broil |
To draw into a situation; to cause to be involved.
* Dryden
To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.
* Addison
To cook by direct, radiant heat.
To expose to great heat.
To be exposed to great heat.
(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2
* Burke
* 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
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)- Avoid him. He will embroil you in his fights.
- the royal house embroiled in civil war
- The Christian antiquities at Rome are so embroiled with fable and legend.
broil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
- 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.
- 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.