'Entangle' definitions:
Definition of 'entangle'
From: WordNet
verb
Entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" [syn: entangle, mire]
verb
Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord" [syn: entangle, tangle, mat, snarl] [ant: disentangle, straighten out, unsnarl]
Definition of 'Entangle'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain. --Froude. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'entangle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absorb,
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- allure,
- bag,
- bait the hook,
- ball up,
- becloud,
- bedazzle,
- befuddle,
- bewilder,
- birdlime,
- bother,
- bug,
- burden,
- capture,
- catch,
- catch out,
- catch up,
- catch up in,
- clog,
- cloud,
- complicate,
- concern,
- confound,
- confuse,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- cumber,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- decoy,
- discombobulate,
- discomfit,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- disturb,
- draw in,
- embarrass,
- embrangle,
- embroil,
- encumber,
- engage,
- enmesh,
- ensnare,
- ensnarl,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- enweb,
- fetter,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- foul,
- foul up,
- fuddle,
- fuss,
- gin,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- handicap,
- harpoon,
- hobble,
- hook,
- hook in,
- impede,
- implicate,
- interest,
- intertwine,
- interweave,
- inveigle,
- involve,
- knot,
- lame,
- land,
- lasso,
- lime,
- louse up,
- lumber,
- lure,
- maze,
- mesh,
- mess up,
- mist,
- mix up,
- moider,
- muck,
- muck up,
- muddle,
- nail,
- net,
- noose,
- perplex,
- perturb,
- pother,
- press down,
- put out,
- raise hell,
- ramify,
- rattle,
- ravel,
- rope,
- ruffle,
- sack,
- saddle with,
- screw up,
- shackle,
- snag,
- snare,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- sniggle,
- spear,
- spread the toils,
- suck into,
- take,
- tangle,
- tangle up with,
- throw into confusion,
- toil,
- trammel,
- trap,
- trip,
- twist,
- unsettle,
- upset,
- weigh down,
- wind