empêtré, -e, part., entangled.

empêtrer, v.a., to entangle, to embarrass, to hamper, to saddle, to fetter. — quelqu’un dans une mauvaise affaire; to involve any one in a disagreeable business.

s’empêtrer, v.r., to become entangled, hampered, embarrassed.

emphase, n.f., magniloquence, pomposity; emphasis, stress.

emphatique, adj., bombastic, affected; emphatic.

emphatiquement (-tik-mān), adv., bombastically, pompously, emphatically.

emphractique, n.m., adj., (pharm.) emphractic.

emphysème, n.m., (med.) emphysema.

emphytéose, n.f., long lease, feudal holding.