Embroiled vs Embarked - What's the difference?
embroiled | embarked |
(embroil)
To draw into a situation; to cause to be involved.
* Dryden
To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.
* Addison
(embark)
To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane.
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*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked , which is disquieting and fussy.
To start, begin.
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(label) To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
(label) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair.
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*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation.
As verbs the difference between embroiled and embarked
is that embroiled is past tense of embroil while embarked is past tense of embark.embroiled
English
Verb
(head)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.
