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imbrangle

imbrangle is the archaic form of embrangle.

Meaning of embrangle

Verb

embrangle (third-person singular simple present embrangles, present participle embrangling, simple past and past participle embrangled)

  1. (transitive) To embroil.
    • When it came to governments as hostile to Washington as the Sandinista, such an observation embrangles Sigal's larger claim about "official dominance of national and foreign news."2003, Robert S. Leiken, Why Nicaragua Vanished: A Story of Reporters and Revolutionaries

Forms of imbrangle

third-person singular presentimbrangles
present participleimbrangling
past participleimbrangled
pastimbrangled

Questions about imbrangle

What is imbrangle the archaic form of?
Imbrangle is the archaic form of embrangle.

Words near imbrangle in the dictionary

  1. imbracing
  2. imbraid
  3. imbraided
  4. imbraiding
  5. imbraids
  6. imbrangle
  7. imbrangled
  8. imbrangles
  9. imbrangling
  10. imbrast
  11. imbreathe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imbrangle (page history and authors); embrangle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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