Chiefly in past participle and figurative: To involve, entangle; †occasionally to wrap up (in fair words).

transitive. To entangle, twist, or knot together; to ravel or confuse.

To tangle; to twist together confusedly; to make a tangle of. Now chiefly dialect and U.S.

To intertwist (threads, branches, or the like) complicatedly or confusedly together; to intertwist the threads or parts of (a thing) in this way; to…

transitive. To entangle; to confuse, perplex; to render incoherent or muddled. Also (occasionally) intransitive. In later use chiefly with up…

To entangle.

To make tangled; to twist, interlace, or mix up in such a manner that a separation cannot easily be made.

transitive. To tangle together; to intertwine confusedly or inextricably.

To entangle root with root.

transitive. To hobble (a horse); to entangle, embarrass, encumber.

intransitive. To ravel. Also, to fasel out.

transitive. To make tangled or disordered; to entangle, intertwine. Obsolete.

trans. To tangle, entangle; to entrammel (a horse, etc.) with a rope; hence, to get fankled: fig. to lose the thread of a discourse (see Jamieson…

transitive. To entangle, intertwine. Also figurative.

transitive. To twist or entangle; also figurative.

transitive. To twist one within another; to twist together; to intertwine, intertangle.

transitive (usually in passive). To tangle or entangle (something or someone); to rumple or disorder (something). Frequently with up. Also intrans…