transitive. To put a stumbling-block in the way of; to overthrow; to entrap; to deceive.

transitive. To envelop, entangle.

transitive. To entangle, to involve or engage in things that embarrass or encumber.

transitive. To involve or engage (a person) in affairs which encumber and hamper or embarrass, and from which it is difficult to get free; = entangle…

figurative or with reference to immaterial things.

To engage, involve, entangle in. Obsolete.

transitive. figurative. To set immovably, as a bird with birdlime; to entangle, entrap. With in, with.

To involve, environ, or entangle (a person, etc.) in something that impedes movement or restricts liberty; to catch in this way. Chiefly in passive…

To envelop or (in later use, more usually) entangle (a person) in trouble, difficulties, perplexity, etc.; to embarrass; to engage in circumstances…

transferred and figurative. To impose restraint upon; to confine, impede, restrain. Also with down.

transitive. To entangle as if in a net; to involve inextricably.

To entangle.

transitive. To entangle or catch as in a net. Of a garment: To cling about, encumber. Cf. falter, v.2

figurative. To bind, restrain, or confine strictly; to restrict closely; to hinder from acting freely; to oblige to act in a particular way. (Cf. 5.)…

Heraldry. A sketch in pen and ink of a coat of arms; in trick, sketched in pen and ink. (Perhaps a different word: see trick, v.)

transitive. To catch or entangle in, or as in, a ‘snarl’ or ravelled knot. Also figurative.

transitive. To bind or restrict in a trammel (in various senses of trammel, n.1); esp. to hinder, impede; to entangle, involve in difficulties or…

In physical senses. To entangle, e.g. in a snare or net, in a bog. Obsolete or archaic.

To tie or make (a knot): also to catch (in a cord, etc.), to entangle. Obsolete.

transitive. To entangle as among briers.

transitive. To enmesh or entangle, to wrap up, as in a net, etc. In quots. figurative.

transitive. To involve in something intricate or bewildering; to entangle in a situation from which escape is difficult.

figurative. To hinder the free action of; to put restraint upon, fetter, hamper, impede, confine.

figurative. To ‘fetter’, restrain; to impede the free or natural action of.

transferred. To involve in intricate paths or among obstacles; also figurative with reference to a metaphorical ‘maze’ or ‘labyrinth’.

figurative. To entrap, entangle; to make (thought) complicated.

Engineering. A state of engagement between gearwheels (or their teeth), toothed racks, or the like. in mesh: (of gearwheels or their teeth) engaged…