catch up vs embroil

catch up

verb
  • To entangle. 

  • To pick up suddenly. 

  • To reach something that had been ahead. 

  • To finally reach something inevitable. 

  • To bring (someone) up to date with the news. 

  • To compensate for or make up a deficiency. 

  • To be brought up to date with news. 

embroil

verb
  • To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble. 

  • To draw into a situation; to cause to be involved. 

How often have the words catch up and embroil occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )