enmesh

[ en-mesh ]

verb (used with object)

1. to catch, as in a net; entangle:

   He was enmeshed by financial difficulties.

enmesh

/ ɪnˈmɛʃ /

verb

1. tr to catch or involve in or as if in a net or snare; entangle

Derived Forms

• enˈmeshment, noun

Other Words From

• en·meshment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of enmesh¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; en- ¹ + mesh

Example Sentences

Alex Kahn The piece itself was about creating a sense of a house that invites in this unknown, ever-shifting cohort of people who enmesh themselves in the history of the house.

From Washington Post

When SpaceX started, the supply chains for aerospace companies going into orbit were enmeshed in the financial system of the US Defense Department.

From MIT Technology Review

Andrew Cuomo is now enmeshed in a scandal that threatens to submarine his third term in office.

From Washington Post

If we’ve learned anything from covid-19, it’s the extent to which our lives are enmeshed with those of the people around us.

From MIT Technology Review

He was enmeshed, however, in a controversy over Theranos, a Silicon Valley-based medical device firm run by Elizabeth Holmes, a charismatic entrepreneur now awaiting trial on fraud charges.

From Washington Post

If one man is to run a hedge round a pasture, the pasture must first be stripped of the rights of common which enmesh it.

From Project Gutenberg

They let him thoroughly enmesh himself, and then produced the order, written entirely in his own hand.

From Project Gutenberg

He maintained his position, and was condemned to death as a traitor, under the law which had been framed expressly to enmesh him.

From Project Gutenberg

All his anxiety was that Cesare should enmesh himself deep enough; and then—!

From Project Gutenberg

The fishermen he knew to be of predatory habits, and the promise of gold would enmesh them.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• embroil
• ensnare
• entangle
• entrap
• implicate
• snare