enmesh
verb (used with object)
to catch, as in a net; entangle.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Michael began to feel that his classical analogies were enmeshing the original idea, involving it already in complexities too manifold for him to unravel.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie