embrollo

m.

1 tangle.

2 embroilment, ruse, confusion, muddle.

pres.indicat.

1^st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: embrollar.

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embrollo

► nombre masculino

1 (confusión) muddle, mess

2 (mentira) lie

3 figurado (situación embarazosa) embarrassing situation

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SM (=confusión) muddle, confusion; (=aprieto) fix *, jam *; (=fraude) fraud, trick; (=mentira) lie, falsehood

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masculino (de hilos, cables) tangle; (de callejuelas, pasillos) maze; (de ideas, situaciones)

el argumento es un embrollo — the plot is extremely involved o complicated

se metió en un embrollo — he got himself into a mess

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= morass, tangled web, muddle, quagmire, tangle, miasma, snarl, snarl-up, snare.

Ex. Publishers attempting to cut through this nomenclature morass can check with the library's administration.

Ex. A reason for this can be found in the tangled web of social services and welfare provisions that prevail in the United States and which are infinitely more complicated than in Britain.

Ex. The author attempts to sort out the muddle in which librarians have found themselves = El autor intenta aclarar la confusión en la que se encuentran los bibliotecarios.

Ex. The title of the article is 'Charting a course through the quagmire of copyright law' = El título del artículo es "Cómo trazar un rumbo en el embrollo de la ley de copyright".

Ex. This project is designed to enable users everywhere to navigate through the information technology tangle.

Ex. The past is often shrouded in a miasma of uncertain memories confounded by missing or incomplete records.

Ex. His work is such a snarl of so many different things that it is as endlessly demanding as it is rewarding.

Ex. However, taxi is a more advisable option considering the never-ending Bangkok traffic snarl-up, especially during the rush hour.

Ex. Whilst telematics for Africa is full of snares, it is the way towards the road to mastery in the future.

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* en un embrollo = in a (pretty) pickle, in a turmoil.

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masculino (de hilos, cables) tangle; (de callejuelas, pasillos) maze; (de ideas, situaciones)

el argumento es un embrollo — the plot is extremely involved o complicated

se metió en un embrollo — he got himself into a mess

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= morass, tangled web, muddle, quagmire, tangle, miasma, snarl, snarl-up, snare.

Ex: Publishers attempting to cut through this nomenclature morass can check with the library's administration.

Ex: A reason for this can be found in the tangled web of social services and welfare provisions that prevail in the United States and which are infinitely more complicated than in Britain.

Ex: The author attempts to sort out the muddle in which librarians have found themselves = El autor intenta aclarar la confusión en la que se encuentran los bibliotecarios.

Ex: The title of the article is 'Charting a course through the quagmire of copyright law' = El título del artículo es "Cómo trazar un rumbo en el embrollo de la ley de copyright".

Ex: This project is designed to enable users everywhere to navigate through the information technology tangle.

Ex: The past is often shrouded in a miasma of uncertain memories confounded by missing or incomplete records.

Ex: His work is such a snarl of so many different things that it is as endlessly demanding as it is rewarding.

Ex: However, taxi is a more advisable option considering the never-ending Bangkok traffic snarl-up, especially during the rush hour.

Ex: Whilst telematics for Africa is full of snares, it is the way towards the road to mastery in the future.

* en un embrollo = in a (pretty) pickle, in a turmoil.

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embrollo

masculine

1 (de hilos, cables) tangle

me perdí en un embrollo de pasillos I got lost in a maze of corridors

2

(de ideas, situaciones): el argumento de la película es un embrollo the plot of the movie is extremely involved o complicated

se metió en un embrollo he got himself into a mess

un embrollo político a political imbroglio

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Del verbo embrollar: (conjugate embrollar)

embrollo es:

1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

embrolló es:

3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

Multiple Entries:
embrollar    
embrollo    
embrolló
embrollar (conjugate embrollar) verbo transitivo

a) ‹hilo/madeja› to tangle (up)

b) (confundir) ‹situación› to complicate;

‹persona› to muddle, confuse

c) (implicar) embrollo a algn en algo to embroil sb in sth, get sb involved in sth

embrollarse verbo pronominal [hilo/madeja] to get tangled;
[situación] to get confused o muddled;
[persona] to get muddled, to get mixed up (colloq)
embrollo sustantivo masculino (de hilos, cables) tangle;
(de callejuelas, pasillos) maze;
(situación confusa) muddle, mess;

◊ el argumento es un embrollo the plot is extremely involved o complicated

embrollo sustantivo masculino
1 (enredo) muddle, confusion
2 (situación apurada) fix, jam

'embrollo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
barullo
- enredo
- lío
English:
muddle
- rigmarole
- screw-up
- jumble
- tangle

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embrollo nm

1. [lío] mess;

meterse en un embrollo to get into a mess;

en menudo embrollo nos hemos metido this is a fine mess we've got ourselves into;

la trama de la obra es un verdadero embrollo the plot of the play is really complicated o confusing

2. [mentira] lie

3. [de hilos, cuerdas, cables] tangle

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embrollo

m tangle; fig

mess, muddle

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embrollo nm

enredo: imbroglio, confusion