Tangle

Quick meaning: Tangle is a verb meaning (transitive) To mix together or intertwine.

Meaning

(transitive) To mix together or intertwine.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.
2. (intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
3. (transitive) To catch and hold.
4. A tangled twisted mass.
5. A complicated or confused state or condition.
6. An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
7. (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.

Example Sentences

tangled in amorous nets

He tangled with the law.

Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.

Don't tangle with someone three times your size.

Word Forms

• tangles
• tangling
• tangled

Synonyms for tangle

Depending on context, synonyms include enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, foul, implicate.

Antonyms for tangle

Common opposites include untangle, unsnarl, unravel, disentangle, unscramble, unknot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include entangle, ravel, snarl, embroil, sweep, tousle.

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