Embroil vs Implicate - What's the difference?
embroil | implicate |
To draw into a situation; to cause to be involved.
* Dryden
To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.
* Addison
To connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.
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, title= To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
(archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.
As verbs the difference between embroil and implicate
is that embroil is to draw into a situation; to cause to be involved while implicate is to connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.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.
implicate
English
Verb
(implicat)A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}