Entangle synonyms and antonyms
ĕn-tăng'gəl
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Part of speech:
To cover with or as with a mat or mats
To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass.
To lure into danger, difficulty, or a compromising situation.
To catch in or as if in a net; ensnare.
To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. transl. [from 16th c.]
To expose involvement in a convoluted matter.
(Medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
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To make uneasy; disturb:
untwist (antonym)
To turn in the opposite direction so as to loosen or separate; untwine
To get hold or control of (something difficult to catch):
To snarl is to say something mean in a bad tempered way, or when an animal bares its teeth and growls.
To get a monopoly on (a stock or commodity)
2011 September 10, Martha T. Moore, “After 9/11, dinner gang raises funds to honor those lost", USA Today, accessed on 2012-08-24:
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Embroil is defined as to involve someone in an argument or confusion.
liberate (antonym)
(Slang) To steal or loot, esp. from a defeated enemy in wartime
disentangle (antonym)
To free from something that entangles, confuses, etc.; extricate; disengage
extricate (antonym)
To set free; release or disentangle (from a net, difficulty, etc.)
Anything complex or intricate; complication
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Embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled
The condition of being embroiled in something; an imbroglio or entanglement
The state of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
A confused or complicated disagreement.
The condition or quality of being intricate; complexity.
A decrease in size of an organ, as of the uterus following childbirth.
(--- Greek Mythology) The maze in which the Minotaur was confined.
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The definition of a maelstrom is a violent, turbulent situation, or a very powerful whirlpool.
To confuse or befuddle, especially by being complicated or varied.
To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; bewilder or perplex.
To cause to feel self-conscious or ill at ease; disconcert:
To entangle; mix up; confuse; perplex
To draw into a snarl or tangle
To twine or twist together.
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To retard or obstruct the progress of.
insnare
Alternative spelling of ensnare.
To connect closely or intricately; intermingle; blend
To confuse or trouble with uncertainty or doubt.
To ponder over a problem in an effort to solve or understand it.
To make (one's way) in a tortuous manner:
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exclude (antonym)
To prevent from entering; keep out; bar:
explain (antonym)
To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
(Intransitive) to be forced into some kind of situation
order (related)
To give an order or orders; request that something be done or supplied.
simple (related)
(Intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, ie, medicinal herbs.
To soil with mud or foul matter.
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ensnare (related)
entangled (related)
(Intransitive) To become twined together.
To entangle or catch in or as if in a mesh.
To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
In a foul manner.
To trap is defined as to catch someone or something.
Find another word for entangle. In this page you can discover 58 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for entangle, like: mat, involve, entrap, mesh, catch, complicate, complication, unsettle, untwist, snare and implicate.
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