enmesh

Because they've been on every side they get enmeshed with the guy who ended up on the wrong side.

Had he not vowed to himself that no matter what mysteries encompassed and enmeshed her, he would believe and never doubt?

It enmeshed him as he swam, so gently that he hardly seemed to struggle or even to be aware of what was happening to him.

Besides, it was obvious that his police net in this instance had enmeshed only the most harmless of doves.

Then we realise that our whole life is enmeshed in great and living forces; terrible because unknown.

Thus he came to the dread conclusion that in his endeavours to screen himself he had but enmeshed himself the more inextricably.