verb
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to catch or involve in or as if in a tangle; ensnare or enmesh
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to make tangled or twisted; snarl
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to make complicated; confuse
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to involve in difficulties; entrap
Related Words
See involve.
Other Word Forms
- entangleable adjective
- entangledly adverb
- entangledness noun
- entangler noun
- entanglingly adverb
- interentangle verb (used with object)
- unentangleable adjective
- unentangled adjective
- unentangling adjective
Etymology
Origin of entangle
Example Sentences
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Mulino has insisted the canal's neutrality is intact and has urged Washington not to entangle Panama in its rivalry with Beijing.
From Barron's
Staffers often help turtles that have swallowed plastic, been struck by boats, gotten stuck in areas they can’t get out of, or, like Porkchop, become entangled in fishing gear.
From Los Angeles Times
When two quantum objects are entangled, measurements performed on them can remain strongly linked even when the objects are far apart.
From Science Daily
For many years, the Kondo effect was thought to mainly suppress magnetism by locking spins into singlets, a maximally entangled state with zero total spin.
From Science Daily
The third part is bitcoin, which has become “increasingly entangled” with AI and private credit.
From MarketWatch
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