embrouiller

== French == === Etymology === From en- +‎ brouiller. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɑ̃.bʁu.je/ === Verb === embrouiller to entangle Synonym: emberlificoter (figuratively, reflexive) to make mistakes, get confused (while performing a complex task) Synonyms: se prendre les pieds dans le tapis, s'emmêler les crayons, s'emmêler les pinceaux Hypernym: se tromper Il s’était embrouillé dans ses calculs en vérifiant les stocks. ― He had gotten his calculations mixed up while confirming the stocks (informal) to bamboozle, to confuse (slang) to get in a fight ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: embrollar → English: embroil → Spanish: embrollar === Further reading === Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “embrouiller”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette “embrouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012