tangle
verb (used with object)
to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
tanglement
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a word derived from
tangle.
Example Sentences
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She found herself drawn to “the tanglement of ontologies, the dialogue between worlds” — intriguing ideas, or that’s what she told herself.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Rough was the wood; a thicket-place where black holm-oaks abound, And with the tanglement of thorns choked up on every side, The road but glimmering faintly out from where the foot-tracks hide.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
I began to see some of the tanglement of nature, and appreciate the solemn mystery of our travel across this vexed and care-warped world.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
But English copses are often one wild tanglement of trailing flowering shrubs, with banks of bracken or ferns.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
But before plunging into the tanglement of these rather complicated problems, it will make for clearness if we consider quite briefly the philosophic heritage of social teaching to which the Middle Ages succeeded.
From Mediaeval Socialism by Bede Jarrett
