Tangle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To mix together or intertwine in a confused mass; snarl.
  • v. To involve in hampering or awkward complications; entangle.
  • v. To catch and hold in or as if in a net; entrap. See Synonyms at catch.
  • verb-intransitive. To be or become entangled.
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To enter into argument, dispute, or conflict: tangled with the law.
  • n. A confused, intertwined mass.
  • n. A jumbled or confused state or condition.
  • n. A state of bewilderment.
  • n. Informal An argument or altercation.
  • n. A large seaweed of the genus Laminaria.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to become mixed together or intertwined
  • v. to be forced into some kind of situation
  • v. to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
  • v. to mix together or intertwine
  • v. to catch and hold
  • n. a tangled twisted mass
  • n. a complicated or confused state or condition
  • n. an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
  • n. A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
  • n. Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
  • v. To involve; to insnare; to entrap.
  • verb-intransitive. To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
  • n. Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See kelp.
  • n. A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl
  • n. An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A name of various large species of seaweed, especially Laminaria digitata and L. saccharina. See cut under seaweed. Also called tangle-wrack and hanger.
  • n. A tall, lank person; any long dangling thing.
  • To unite or knit together confusedly; interweave or interlace, as threads, so as to make it difficult to separate them; snarl.
  • To catch or involve as in a snarl; entrap; entangle.
  • To embroil; embarrass; confuse; perplex; involve; complicate.
  • Synonyms To entangle, intertwine, snarl (up).
  • To be entangled or united confusedly.
  • n. A snarl of threads or other things united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged.
  • n. A device used in dredging, for sweeping the sea-bed in order to obtain delicate forms of marine life, too small or frangible to be obtained by ordinary dredging.
  • n. A perplexity or embarrassment; a complication.
  • Froward; peevish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
  • v. disarrange or rumple; dishevel
  • n. something jumbled or confused
  • n. a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
  • v. tangle or complicate
  • v. twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
  • Verb Form
    tangled    tangles    tangless    tangling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    involve    disarrange    perplexity    lace    twine    intertwine    enlace    interlace    entwine   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    kelp   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    involve    insnare    entrap    snarl    entangle    trap    involved    mess    knot    maze   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Angle    Wrangell    angle    bangle    dangle    disentangle    entangle    fangle    jangle    mangle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dense    thick    knot    maze    rag    clump    bare    rough    purple    leafy