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disembroil

[ dis-em-broil ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to free from embroilment, entanglement, or confusion.


disembroil

/ ˌɪɪˈɔɪ /

verb

  1. tr to free from entanglement or a confused situation
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of disembroil1

First recorded in 1615–25; dis- 1 + embroil
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Let him but decently disembroil himself, Scramble from out the scrape nor move the mud,— We solid ones may risk a finger-stretch!”

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Wildgoose promptly falls in love with a fascinating damsel-errant, Julia Townsend; and the various adventures, religious, picaresque, and amatory, are embroiled and disembroiled with very fair skill in character and fairer still in narrative.

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Thus disembroiled they take their proper place; The next of kin contiguously embrace, And foes are sundered by a larger space.

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He was proceeding throughout on the ground of the immense difference—difficult indeed as it might have been to disembroil in this young person HER race-quality.

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He was proceeding throughout on the ground of the immense difference—difficult indeed as it might have been to disembroil in this young person HER race- quality.

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