enmesh

[ en-mesh ]

/ ɛnˈmɛʃ /

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verb (used with object)

to catch, as in a net; entangle: He was enmeshed by financial difficulties.

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Also immesh, inmesh.

Origin of enmesh

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

OTHER WORDS FROM enmesh

en·mesh·ment, noun

Words nearby enmesh

enlistee, enlistment, enliven, enmarble, en masse, enmesh, enmity, Enna, ennage, -enne, ennea-

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How to use enmesh in a sentence

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.
Revisiting ‘The Visitors’: An oral history of Ragnar Kjartansson’s multimedia masterpiece|Sebastian Smee, Gabriel Florit, Joanne Lee|July 23, 2021|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.
Startup Phantom Space wants to be the Henry Ford of rockets|Neel V. Patel|May 26, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Andrew Cuomo is now enmeshed in a scandal that threatens to submarine his third term in office.
If Andrew Cuomo isn’t ‘part of the political club’ then Mickey Mouse isn’t part of Disney|Philip Bump|March 12, 2021|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.
Digital contact tracing brought tech rivals together while the pandemic kept us apart|Lindsay Muscato|February 24, 2021|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.
George P. Shultz, counsel and Cabinet member for two Republican presidents, dies at 100|Michael Abramowitz, David Hoffman|February 8, 2021|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.
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century|Richard Henry Tawney
They let him thoroughly enmesh himself, and then produced the order, written entirely in his own hand.
History of the Commune of 1871|P. Lissagary
He maintained his position, and was condemned to death as a traitor, under the law which had been framed expressly to enmesh him.
Ten Tudor Statesmen|Arthur D. Innes
All his anxiety was that Cesare should enmesh himself deep enough; and then—!
Little Novels of Italy|Maurice Henry Hewlett
The fishermen he knew to be of predatory habits, and the promise of gold would enmesh them.
The Adventures of Kathlyn|Harold MacGrath

British Dictionary definitions for enmesh

enmesh

inmesh immesh

/ (ɪnˈmɛʃ) /

verb

(tr) to catch or involve in or as if in a net or snare; entangle

Derived forms of enmesh

enmeshment, noun

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enmesh

Origin of enmesh

OTHER WORDS FROM enmesh

Words nearby enmesh

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British Dictionary definitions for enmesh

inmesh immesh

Derived forms of enmesh