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entangle Definition

en·tan·gle (en taŋgəl, in-)

transitive verb -·gled, -·gling

  1. to involve in or as in a tangle; catch, as in a net, vine, etc., so that escape is difficult; ensnare
  2. to involve in difficulty
  3. to confuse mentally; perplex
  4. to cause to be tangled or confused; complicate

entangle Related Forms
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.

—Webster,John

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