vverb.stativeforce into some kind of situation, condition, or course of actionSynset:drag drag in embroil sweep sweep up tangle
Examples:- They were swept up by the events
- don't drag me into this business
Derivationally Related Form:embroilment
Hypernyms:involve
Inherited Hypernyms:embroilinvolveadmitpermitacceptreactact
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Somebody ---s somebody PP
vverb.contacttangle or complicateSynset:knot ravel tangle
Antonyms:unknotunravel
Derivationally Related Form:raveltangleknot
Hypernyms:enlace entwine interlace intertwine lace twine
Inherited Hypernyms:ravelintertwinetwistchange shapechange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s | Somebody ---s something PP
vverb.contactdisarrange or rumple; dishevelSynset:dishevel tangle tousle
Examples:- The strong wind tousled my hair
Derivationally Related Form:tangle
Hypernyms:disarrange
Inherited Hypernyms:tousledisarrangemove
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something
vverb.contacttwist together or entwine into a confusing massSynset:entangle mat snarl tangle
Examples:- The child entangled the cord
Antonyms:disentangleunsnarl
Derivationally Related Form:tanglesnarl
Hypernyms:distort twine twist
Inherited Hypernyms:entangletwistchange shapechange
Direct Hyponyms:enmeshensnarlfeltmesh
Full Troponyms:enmeshfelt
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something | They --- their hair (apply to: entangle, mat, tangle, snarl)
adjadj.allin a confused massExamples:- pushed back her tangled hair
- the tangled ropes
Antonyms:untangled
Inherited Hypernyms:tangled
Similar to:afoul foul fouled enmeshed intermeshed entangled knotty snarled snarly matted rootbound thrown thrown and twisted
adj satadj.allhighly complex or intricate and occasionally deviousSynset:Byzantine convoluted involved knotty tortuous
Examples:- the Byzantine tax structure
- Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
- convoluted legal language
- convoluted reasoning
- 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
Antonyms:simple
Derivationally Related Form:knottinesstortuousness
Inherited Hypernyms:byzantine
Similar to:complex