Tangled, confused, or embroiled; caught up in a complicated or messy situation.
From embrangle + -ed (past participle/adjective suffix). The -ed ending transforms the verb into its past form or creates an adjective meaning 'affected by' the verb's action.
The past participle -ed is doing double duty here—it's both the past tense (he embrangled) and an adjective (an embrangled situation). This dual use happens constantly in English but we barely notice it!
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