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单词 tangled
释义
Tangled
vverb.stativeforce into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
Synset: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 complicate
Synset:knot ravel tangle
Examples:
  • a ravelled story
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; dishevel
Synset: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 mass
Synset: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 mass
Examples:
  • 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 devious
Synset: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
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