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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Entangle \En*tan"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Entangled}; p. pr &
vb n. {Entangling}.]
1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be
easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and
intricate; as to entangle yarn or the hair.
2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication
a bewildering difficulty; hence metaphorically, to
insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as to
entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. ``Entangling
alliances.'' --Washington.
The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and
entangle their understandings. --Locke.
Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose
future was so uncertain. --Froude.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
entangle
v 1: entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" [syn: {mire}]
2: twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child
entangled the cord" [syn: {tangle}, {mat}, {snarl}] [ant:
{disentangle}, {disentangle}]
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