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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.]
(Medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
To make uneasy; disturb:
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insnare
Alternative spelling of ensnare.
To expose involvement in a convoluted matter.
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)
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Embroil is defined as to involve someone in an argument or confusion.
(Intransitive) to be forced into some kind of situation
Anything complex or intricate; complication
Embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled
The condition of being embroiled in something; an imbroglio or entanglement
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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.
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.
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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.
To retard or obstruct the progress of.
To connect closely or intricately; intermingle; blend
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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:
To soil with mud or foul matter.
(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.
untwist
To turn in the opposite direction so as to loosen or separate; untwine
(Slang) To steal or loot, esp. from a defeated enemy in wartime
To free from something that entangles, confuses, etc.; extricate; disengage
To set free; release or disentangle (from a net, difficulty, etc.)
To prevent from entering; keep out; bar:
To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
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