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verb

Entangle v. t. (past & past part. entangled; pres. part. entangling)

To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.

To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. "Entangling alliances." "The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings." "Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain."

adjective

entangled adj.

In a confused mass. Contrasted with untangled. (Narrower terms: afoul(postnominal), foul, fouled; knotted, snarled, snarly; matted; rootbound; intertwined)

Synonyms: tangled.

Deeply involved especially in something problematic; as, entangled in the conflict.

Synonyms: embroiled.

Constrained by or as if by a convoluted rope or net; ensnared.

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Etymology of 'Entangled'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Entangled" Quotes from Famous Books

... to Germany and the Emperor—whose complicated affairs are so entangled with those of France that they cannot be wholly separated, each in some measure forming the complement of the other. The command-in-chief of the German army was given to Maurice of Saxony—an able general, full of resource, daring and dauntless in the field, crafty ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 9 • Various

... he too "strove towards the truth in common with all conscious life, and this striving tormented him. He himself did not understand that he, like all men, was striving towards the truth, and that was why he had that confused unrest. He could not find his truth, and he became entangled, and was perishing." Liudmilla, however, had saved herself from the pettiness and provinciality of this "unclean, impotent earth" by creating a new world for herself. She, at any rate, had her ...

— The Created Legend • Feodor Sologub

... taken the spear which had been thrown at them. Of the mule's position no one could give an opinion, save that they imagined, in consequence of the thickness of the bush, he would soon become irretrievably entangled in the thicket, where the savages would find him, and bring him in as ...

— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke

... day, one of the kloofs on the farm gave up a wig of golden hair, all muddy and weed-entangled. The natives hung it on a bush to dry, and there was much gossip among them that day, hastily hushed when ...

— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley

... aspen-leaves, that strewed his forests with wood for the gatherer, and blew the broken lights into the glades, is charmed into stillness, and the sky into another kind of immortality. Nor are the trees in this antique landscape the trees so long intimate with Corot's south-west wind, so often entangled with his uncertain twilights. They are as quiet as the cloud, and such as the long and wild breezes of Romance ...

— The Colour of Life • Alice Meynell

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