Synonyms of the word

embroil

• v. To draw into a situation; to cause to be involved.
• v. To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.

drag

• n. (uncountable) Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
• n. (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
• n. (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body,…
• n. (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
• n. (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle…
• n. (countable, slang) Horse-drawn wagon or buggy.
• n. (countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'.
• n. (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents.
• n. (countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
• n. A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
• n. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
• n. (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
• n. (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
• n. (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the…
• n. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially,…
• n. A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
• n. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
• v. (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly.
• v. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
• v. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
• v. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
• v. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
• v. (computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.
• v. To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface.
• v. (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
• v. To fish with a dragnet.
• v. To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of…
• v. To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
• v. (figuratively) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
• v. (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
• n. (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
• v. To perform as a drag queen or drag king.

involve

• v. (archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
• v. (archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
• v. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
• v. (archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily;…
• v. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
• v. To envelop, enfold, entangle.
• v. To engage (someone) to participate in a task.
• v. (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of…

sweep

• v. (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
• v. (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
• v. (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
• v. (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
• v. (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To move something in a particular motion, as a broom.
• v. (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
• v. (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that…
• v. (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
• v. To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
• v. To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
• v. To strike with a long stroke.
• v. (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
• v. To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
• n. A single action of sweeping.
• n. The person who steers a dragon boat.
• n. A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
• n. A chimney sweep.
• n. A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
• n. A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team…
• n. A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
• n. (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
• n. Violent and general destruction.
• n. (metalworking) A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.
• n. (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
• n. The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
• n. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
• n. A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
• n. (refining, obsolete) The almond furnace.
• n. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise…
• n. Any of the blades of a windmill.
• n. (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
• n. Any of several sea chubs in the kyphosid subfamily Scorpidinae.

tangle

• v. (intransitive) to become mixed together or intertwined.
• v. (intransitive) to be forced into some kind of situation.
• v. (intransitive) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
• v. (transitive) to mix together or intertwine.
• v. (transitive) to catch and hold.
• n. A tangled twisted mass.
• n. A complicated or confused state or condition.
• n. An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
• n. (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four…
• n. A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
• n. Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
• n. (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentiallly of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles…