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Another word for tangle

Verb

  1. To twist together so that separation is difficult

    2. See also:

    order

  2. To make complex, intricate, or perplexing

    3. See also:

    simple

  3. To gain control of or an advantage over by or as if by trapping

    4. See also:

    free

  4. To engage in a quarrel

    5. Idioms:
    See also:

    conflict

Another word for tangle

Noun

  1. Something that is intricately and often bewilderingly complex

    2. See also:

    simple

  2. A discussion, often heated, in which a difference of opinion is expressed

    3. See also:

    conflict

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for tangle

Noun
    2. See also:

    knot

    confusion

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Sentence Examples

  • He was sure by now it was a brown tangle, ready for the trash heap.

  • The commander-in-chief's first duty was to create a field army out of the tangle of units in Cape Colony.

  • involved in the tangle of European diplomacy; he is the monarch of a vast, admirably organized, spiritual world-empire, and when - as must needs happen - the overlapping of the spiritual and temporal spheres brings him into conflict with a secular power, his diplomacy is backed, wherever Catholic sentiment is strong, by a force which the secular power has much difficulty in resisting;.

  • A beard and mustache covered the lower part of his face, and a tangle of hair, infested with lice, curled round his head like a cap.

  • In the densest forests the trees, struggling through the tangle of underwood to the light, are often 150 ft.

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