Open English Wordnet
Verbs
(v)embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag inforce into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action“They were swept up by the events”,
“don't drag me into this business” (v)espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep uptake up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own“She embraced Catholicism”,
“They adopted the Jewish faith”