Fracas vs Embroilment - What's the difference?
fracas | embroilment | Related terms |
A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
* 1989 , , Faber 1999, paperback edition, p. 16,
* 1964 , , Vintage Books 2002, paperback edition, p. 37,
Fracas is a related term of embroilment.
As nouns the difference between fracas and embroilment
is that fracas is failure while embroilment is the condition of being embroiled in something; an imbroglio or entanglement.fracas
English
Noun
(en-noun)- And I recall also some years ago, Mr Rayne, who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginals Mauvis, remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station.
- The Oregon-Northern California region had lost much of its population during the fracas of 1980; it had been heavily hit by Red Chinese guided missiles, and of course the clouds of fallout had blanketed it in the subsequent decade.