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

Around the time Epstein was released from a Florida jail in 2009, Indyke and Kahn were enmeshed in Epstein’s complex financial and legal scaffolding.

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He met that milestone but, in 2024, a Delaware judge rejected the deal on the grounds that Tesla's board members were too personally and financially enmeshed with the company's boss.

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Instead, enmeshed by the thousands and even the millions in data centers, they function as a single “hyperscale” computer, with their collective thinking designated AI.

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The governor was enmeshed in several other scandals, including allegations that she strong-armed a state official into giving her daughter an unearned certification as a real estate appraiser.

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Poland shares not only a border with the Russian exclave Kaliningrad, but also Belarus, a close Moscow ally now enmeshed in Russia’s defense infrastructure.

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Related Words

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