'Embroilment' definitions:
Definition of 'embroilment'
From: WordNet
noun
An intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation [syn: imbroglio, embroilment]
Definition of 'Embroilment'
From: GCIDE
- Embroilment \Em*broil"ment\, n. [Cf. F. embrouillement.] The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'embroilment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- action,
- ado,
- aerial combat,
- affray,
- agitation,
- altercation,
- argument,
- armored combat,
- battle,
- battle royal,
- bicker,
- bickering,
- blood feud,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- boil,
- boiling,
- bother,
- brawl,
- broil,
- brouhaha,
- brush,
- bullfight,
- bustle,
- cacophony,
- chaos,
- churn,
- clash,
- clash of arms,
- cockfight,
- combat,
- commotion,
- conflict,
- contention,
- controversy,
- conturbation,
- discomposure,
- disorder,
- dispute,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- disturbance,
- dogfight,
- donnybrook,
- donnybrook fair,
- dustup,
- ebullience,
- ebullition,
- eddy,
- effervescence,
- enmeshment,
- exchange of blows,
- excitement,
- falling-out,
- fanaticism,
- feery-fary,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- feud,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- fidgets,
- fight,
- fire fight,
- flap,
- fliting,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutteration,
- foment,
- fomentation,
- foofaraw,
- fracas,
- fray,
- free-for-all,
- frenzy,
- fume,
- furor,
- furore,
- fury,
- fuss,
- ground combat,
- hand-to-hand combat,
- hand-to-hand fight,
- hassle,
- helter-skelter,
- house-to-house combat,
- hubbub,
- hurly-burly,
- hurry,
- hurry-scurry,
- imbroglio,
- inquietude,
- involvement,
- jitters,
- jumpiness,
- logomachy,
- maelstrom,
- malaise,
- melee,
- moil,
- naval combat,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervousness,
- open quarrel,
- pandemonium,
- passage of arms,
- passion,
- pell-mell,
- perturbation,
- pitched battle,
- polemic,
- pother,
- quarrel,
- racket,
- rage,
- rampage,
- restlessness,
- riot,
- roil,
- rough-and-tumble,
- roughhouse,
- rout,
- row,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- ruffle,
- rumble,
- rumpus,
- running fight,
- scramble,
- scrimmage,
- scuffle,
- seethe,
- seething,
- sharp words,
- shindy,
- shoving match,
- skirmish,
- slanging match,
- snarl,
- spat,
- squabble,
- stand-up fight,
- stir,
- storminess,
- street fight,
- strife,
- struggle,
- swirl,
- swirling,
- tauromachy,
- tempestuousness,
- tiff,
- to-do,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- trouble,
- tug-of-war,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- tumultuousness,
- turbidity,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- tussle,
- twitter,
- unease,
- unrest,
- uproar,
- upset,
- vendetta,
- vortex,
- whirl,
- wildness,
- words,
- wrangle,
- yeastiness,
- zeal,
- zealousness