enmesh
verb (used with object)
to catch, as in a net; entangle.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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They are clinging to and have enmeshed themselves in the vain imaginings of the foolish.
From Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh