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Definition of Entangle
1. Verb. Entrap. "Our people should not be mired in the past"
2. Verb. Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass. "They entangle their hair "; "The child entangled the cord"
Generic synonyms: Distort, Twine, Twist
Specialized synonyms: Felt, Enmesh, Ensnarl, Mesh
Antonyms: Disentangle, Unsnarl
Derivative terms: Snarl, Tangle
Definition of Entangle
1. v. t. 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.
Definition of Entangle
1. Verb. To tangle; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make confused and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair. ¹
2. Verb. To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. ¹
3. Verb. To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse or perplexing circumstances, interests, demands, etc.; to hamper; to bewilder. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Entangle
1. to tangle [v -TANGLED, -TANGLING, -TANGLES] - See also: tangle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entangle
Literary usage of Entangle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonymes, with Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from by George Crabb (1854)
"TO EMANATE—lo arise, proceed, issue, spring, flow, emanate 291 TO EMBARRASS—to
embarrass, entangle, per- plei 412 EMBARRASSMENTS difficulties, ..."
2. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order by George Crabb (1826)
"TO EMBARRASS, PERPLEX, entangle. ... I presume you do not entangle yourself in
ihi- particular controversies between the ..."
3. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"What course sin takes, and what way it proceedeth in, thus to entice, ensnare,
or entangle the soul. For the first, (1.) The affections are certainly ..."
4. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"... no more such superstitious stipulations, which entangle the mind with unbidden
obligations." [It was about this time that Mrs. Thrale, who had p;°zzi, ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"G. wirren, to jumble, entangle, embroil, confound; ... to entangle. Ward.
The sense of keeping is commonly expressed by the figure of looking after. ..."
6. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"they had none; and who goeth a warfare, should not entangle himself with the
things of thia world. The Lord took him away from the evil to come, ..."
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