sweep up vs embroil

sweep up and embroil both are verbs.

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

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

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

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

sweep up (verb)	embroil (verb)
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
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action