enmesh
to catch, as in a net; entangle: He was enmeshed by financial difficulties.
Origin of enmesh
1Other words from enmesh
- en·mesh·ment, noun
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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 PostWhen 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 ReviewAndrew 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 PostIf 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 ReviewHe 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 TawneyThey let him thoroughly enmesh himself, and then produced the order, written entirely in his own hand.
History of the Commune of 1871 | P. LissagaryHe 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. InnesAll his anxiety was that Cesare should enmesh himself deep enough; and then—!
Little Novels of Italy | Maurice Henry HewlettThe 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
inmesh immesh
/ (ɪnˈmɛʃ) /
(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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