Embroilment

  • 21conflict — I noun adverseness, affray, altercation, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, argument, argumentation, battle, belligerency, breach, challenge, clash, clash of arms, collision, combat, competition, conflict of opinion, contention, contentiousness,… …

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  • 22entanglement — I (contusion) noun agitation, chaos, commotion, complexity, complication confusedness, derangement, disarrangement, disarry, disorder, disorganization, embroilment, enmeshment, ferment, imbroglio, intricacy, irregularity, jumble, maze, mix up,… …

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  • 23imbroglio — I noun babel, bedlam, broil, chaos, commotion, complexity, complicated misunderstanding, complication, confusing situation, confusion, difficult situation, difficulty, dilemma, disagreement, disorder, disturbance, embarrassing situation,… …

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  • 24involvement — I (association) noun incrimination, inculpation II (complex) noun affiliation, complex, complexness, complication, complicity, dilemma, embroilment, engagement, engrossment, enmeshment, entailment, entanglement, implication, inextricability,… …

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  • 25pandemonium — I noun affray, agitation, anarchy, bedlam, chaos, clamor, commotion, confusedness, confusion, convulsion, derangement, din, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, disharmony, disorder, disorganization, disquietude, disruption, disturbance,… …

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  • 26entanglement — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. complexity, involvement, complication, snare; see affair 2 , confusion 2 , difficulty 1 , 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. knot, snare, difficulty, problem, quandary, predicament, embroilment, web, mess, involvement,… …

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  • 27involvement — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Difficulty] Syn. entanglement, quandary, crisis, embarrassment; see difficulty 1 , 2 . 2. [Connection] Syn. engagement, embroilment, association, responsibility; see relationship . 3. [Engrossment] Syn. intentness, study,… …

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  • 28Discord — I (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Discord >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 discord discord discordance Sgm: N 1 dissonance dissonance cacophony want of harmony caterwauling Sgm: N 1 harshness harshness &c. 410 =>(Confused sounds) …

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  • 29Embroil — Em*broil , n. See {Embroilment}. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 30embroil — transitive verb Etymology: French embrouiller, from Middle French, from en + brouiller to jumble, from Old French brooilier, from Vulgar Latin *brodiculare more at broil Date: 1603 1. to throw into disorder or confusion 2. to involve in conflict… …

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