tangle
noun
1. a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
- they carved their way through the tangle of vines
Definition categories: object
2. something jumbled or confused
- a tangle of government regulations
Definition categories: thought, perplexity
Sentences with tangle as a noun:
- I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere.
verb
1. force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
Similar word(s): drag, embroil, sweep
Definition categories: stative, involve
2. tangle or complicate
Definition categories: contact, enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine
3. disarrange or rumple; dishevel
Similar word(s): dishevel, tousle
Definition categories: contact, disarrange
4. twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- The child entangled the cord
Similar word(s): entangle, mat, snarl
Definition categories: contact, distort, twine, twist
Sentences with tangle as a verb:
- Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.
- Don't tangle with someone three times your size.
- He tangled with the law.