disembroil

[ dis-em-broil ]

verb (used with object)

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

disembroil

/ ˌdɪsɪmˈbrɔɪl /

verb

1. tr to free from entanglement or a confused situation

Word History and Origins

Origin of disembroil¹

First recorded in 1615–25; dis- ¹ + embroil

Example Sentences

Let him but decently disembroil himself, Scramble from out the scrape nor move the mud,— We solid ones may risk a finger-stretch!”

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• detach
• disengage
• emancipate
• extricate
• unravel
• unscramble
• untangle
• untie