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

Other Word Forms

• enmeshment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of enmesh¹

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

Example Sentences

Pop culture became increasingly enmeshed in questions of identity, intersectionality, racial justice, gender and queerness.

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It’s a lifestyle that breeds camaraderie among the merchants, whose businesses are also, in many cases, enmeshed.

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But the car industry is just one area in which Chinese technology is becoming increasingly enmeshed in the UK economy.

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One person may, for example, be focusing on buying back the master recordings of her first six albums, while the other is enmeshed in rearing her four children with Deadpool.

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America’s elite universities are already deeply enmeshed with top schools abroad, from engineering partnerships with the Indian Institute of Technology to the Persian Gulf campuses of Georgetown, Texas A&M and NYU.

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Related Words

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