Definition of tangle

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Tangle (v.) A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively..

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Entanglement :: Entanglement (n.) State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
Outtwine :: Outtwine (v. t.) To disentangle.
Tangle :: Tangle (v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea..
Foul :: Foul (v. t.) To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race..
Mat :: Mat (v. t.) To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle..
Immersed :: Immersed (p. p. & a.) Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.
Disentangled :: Disentangled (imp. & p. p.) of Disentangl.
Involution :: Involution (n.) The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement.
Rectangle :: Rectangle (n.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.
Perplex :: Perplex (a.) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts..
Unbraid :: Unbraid (v. t.) To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle..
Complication :: Complication (n.) The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
Hitch :: Hitch (v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
Taglock :: Taglock (n.) An entangled lock, as of hair or wool..
Rectangle :: Rectangle (a.) Rectangular.
Embroil :: Embroil (v. t.) To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife.
Tangle :: Tangle (n.) To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel..
Resolve :: Resolve (v. i.) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle..
Intertwine :: Intertwine (v. t.) To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace.
Afoul :: Afoul (adv. & a.) In collision; entangled.
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