embroil verb

/ɪmˈbrɔɪl/ v [T]

Definition

to cause someone to become involved in an argument or a difficult situation

[R] She had no desire to embroil herself in lengthy lawsuits with the tabloid newspapers.

The United Nations was reluctant to get its forces embroiled in civil war.

(Definition of embroil verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

If a problem preys on your mind, you think about it and worry about it a lot

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