entangle
entangle
Definition
en·tan·gle (en taŋ′gəl, in-)
transitive verb -·gled, -·gling
- to involve in or as in a tangle; catch, as in a net, vine, etc., so that escape is difficult; ensnare
- to involve in difficulty
- to confuse mentally; perplex
- to cause to be tangled or confused; complicate
en·tan′·gle·ment noun
entangle
Synonyms
entangle
v.
entangle
Usage Examples
Object
- alliance: I quote: Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none.
- death: The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
- power: We study the entangling power of permutations, given in terms of a combinatorial formula.
- people: Here the dance takes off with everyday people entangled in vanity reflected in an unseen mirror.
- opponent: In addition, the rope can be used to entangle an opponent.
- foot: Um Mistah stumbled by getting her foot entangled in her covering sheet and on that she said, ' Let Mistah be ruined!
Preposition: with
- yoke: But we are free and we will not again be entangled with the yoke of bondage.
- mind: Changes are introduced both internally by formulating new concepts and externally by entangling with other minds with different perceptions.
Modifying Another Word
- mutually: You can win by applying a suitable technique while you are mutually entangled.
- easily: Who tonight needs to repent and throw off the sin that so easily entangles and run with perseverance the race marked out for you?
- again: We pray that we will never become entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
- together: Without all other degrees of freedom entangled together, any single one in isolation has no meaning.
- so: And yet, let's go back to Jazz, so much of the Jazz music was so entangled with religious thinking.
- not: That part of their individual universes will not entangle.
Preposition: in
- net: But most of the fish are entangled in the net.
- web: I myself had entangled in the web this head of big game, which is not often captured by the Epeirae.
- line: A wildlife expert has criticized careless anglers after a swan was entangled in fishing line.
- mesh: But that my girl should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more than I could suffer.
- rope: She might have been entangled in the ropes and dragged down, but that was only surmise.
- wire: Overgrown claws can cause birds to be entangled in wire netting or foliage.
entangle Quotes
Then the law to him Is like a foul black cobweb to a spider; He makes it his dwelling, and a prison To entangle those shall feed him.
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