Embroiled vs Engaged - What's the difference?
embroiled | engaged |
(embroil)
To draw into a situation; to cause to be involved.
* Dryden
To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.
* Addison
(engage)
Agreed to be married.
Busy or employed.
(British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls
(architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
(of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
As verbs the difference between embroiled and engaged
is that embroiled is (embroil) while engaged is (engage).As an adjective engaged is
agreed to be married.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.
engaged
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- I tried calling, but she (''or'' her phone) was engaged .