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English

Verb

tangled

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Dutch: verward, in de war gebracht

te:tangled vi:tangled

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tangle \Tan"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tangled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tangling.] [A frequentative fr. tang seaweed; hence, to
twist like seaweed. See Tang seaweed, and cf. Tangle, n.]
1. 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.
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2. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in
lies. "Tangled in amorous nets." --Milton.
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When my simple weakness strays,
Tangled in forbidden ways. --Crashaw.
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WordNet tangled
adj 1: in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the
tangled ropes" [ant: untangled]
2: highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure";
"convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning";
"intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined
phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty
problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh,
what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous
legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for
months" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, intricate, involved,
knotty, labyrinthine, tortuous]

Moby Dictionary
Byzantine , balled up , complex , complicated , confounded , confused ,
convoluted , crabbed , daedal , devious , elaborate , embrangled ,
entangled , fouled up , implicated , intricate , involuted , involved ,
knotted , labyrinthian , labyrinthine , loused up , many-faceted ,
matted , mazy , meandering , messed up , mixed up , mucked up ,
multifarious , perplexed , ramified , roundabout , screwed up , snarled ,
subtle , tangly , twisted