embrangle

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The word embrangle (to confuse or entangle) won with 1,434 votes, while fubsy (short and stout) came in a distant second.

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  • The word embrangle (to confuse or entangle) won with 1,434 votes, while fubsy (short and stout) came in a distant second. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • The ensuing grassroots campaign failed to save "embrangle" (to confuse or entangle) and "caliginosity" (dimness, darkness). —  Jezebel
  • : cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous —  Club Troppo
 

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  1. en-1 + dialectal brangle, to shake, waver, confuse (variant of branle, brandle, from French branler, from Old French brandeler, perhaps from brand, sword; see brandish).
 

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/ɛm, ɪmˈbrænggl/
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