embroil (verb) - to involve someone or something in a conflict, argument, or difficulty; to throw into chaos or confusion [em-broil]
BREAKDOWN: EM- (in) + BROI- (boil)
embroiled means complicated, confused, or deeply involved in
a broil can refer to an argument, struggle, or chaotic situation
“It is never easy to confront life-changing news, especially when you are deeply embroiled in the everyday and the banal, which we always are. They absorb almost everything, make almost everything small, apart from the few events that are so immense that they lay waste to all the everyday trivia around you.” ―Karl Ove Knausgaard