verb
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to catch or involve in or as if in a tangle; ensnare or enmesh
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to make tangled or twisted; snarl
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to make complicated; confuse
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to involve in difficulties; entrap
Related Words
See involve.
Other Word Forms
- entangleable adjective
- entangledly adverb
- entangledness noun
- entangler noun
- entanglingly adverb
- interentangle verb (used with object)
- unentangleable adjective
- unentangled adjective
- unentangling adjective
Etymology
Origin of entangle
Example Sentences
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The third part is bitcoin, which has become “increasingly entangled” with AI and private credit.
From MarketWatch
It’s a trend officials acknowledge is entangled with the city’s increase in homelessness.
From Los Angeles Times
He was interested in the relationship between fathers and sons, an obsession of Le Carré’s, and in how Jonathan and Roper would be entangled all these years later.
From Los Angeles Times
Bea becomes entangled with a cute waiter at the remote region’s bar and grill.
Others flood victims with repeated filings that make it appear they are entangled in complex financial disputes.
From Los Angeles Times
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