embroil vs sweep up

embroil and sweep up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
embroil	No	No	Yes	No
sweep up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, embroil and sweep up are synonyms defined as:

embroil and sweep up: force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

Other synonyms of embroil include drag, drag in, sweep, tangle.

embroil (verb)	sweep up (verb)
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action	take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
	force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action