get caught up in something(catch)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Taking part and getting involved
actor
all in
along
attendee
be (a) party to somethingidiom
concern
engage
go all in
go in on something
hat
have a dog in the fightidiom
have a horse in the raceidiom
mess
muscle
participatory
pitch in
plunge
plunge in/plunge into something
punch above your weightidiom
thick

Examples of embroiled

embroiled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This is no doubt a consequence of the prolonged identity crisis that has embroiled the sub-discipline in the past few decades.
This came to naught, as the operation became embroiled in a small war, but there were also reports of increasing deterioration.
The police force also became embroiled in the agitations.
He does not develop a political philosophy or take a political stand even though the whole country is embroiled in politics.
In the early twentieth century this group became embroiled in conflict with the colonial administration over their legal status.
American leaders who actually propose national health insurance, however, quickly find themselves embroiled in the fight of their lives.
With the movement's leaders embroiled in turf wars within the bureaucracy, the reform effort floundered.
The latter became embroiled with a trader over the price of shoes and matters came to a boil.
As a result, they became embroiled in power struggles, both directly and indirectly, backing warlords who were sympathetic to their missionary activities.
Subsequently, it became increasingly embroiled in a struggle between rival merchant and noble interests for control over private industry.
I felt that reading the book did not force me to become overly embroiled in the debriefing debate.
He was also known for the many feuds in which he became embroiled.
The other zone encompassed the rest of the world's population, living in lesser developed states, often authoritarian, and occasionally embroiled in internal and external conflicts.
Again, these positions represent only extremes of an embroiled and often paradoxical debate which took the female body as its subject.
The whole process of land acquisition which ensued, however, got embroiled in an inordinately complex bureaucratic process including the tracing of inaccurate land deeds and registration, creating delays and confusion.
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