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Entangled vs Embroiled - What's the difference?

entangled | embroiled |

As verbs the difference between entangled and embroiled

is that entangled is (entangle) while embroiled is (embroil).

As an adjective entangled

is tangled or twisted together.

entangled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (entangle)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • tangled or twisted together
  • confused or complicated
  • (physics) (of two quantum states'') correlated, even though physically separated; (''referring to a state of a composite system ) not separable
  • See also

    * quantum entanglement

    embroiled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (embroil)

  • 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.