Definition of tangle

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Tangle (v.) A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively..

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Intricate :: Intricate (a.) Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc..
Untangle :: Untangle (v. t.) To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread..
Pentangle :: Pentangle (n.) A pentagon.
Red :: Red (v. t.) To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a house..
Comb :: Comb (v. t.) To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing..
Tangle :: Tangle (v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea..
Befoul :: Befoul (a.) To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
Water Flannel :: Water flannel () A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
Sleave :: Sleave (n.) The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
Disintricate :: Disintricate (v. t.) To disentangle.
Enmesh :: Enmesh (v. t.) To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes..
Tanglefish :: Tanglefish (n.) The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe..
Ravel :: Ravel (v. t.) To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve..
Cespitose :: Cespitose (a.) Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots..
Simple :: Simple (a.) Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks..
Coil :: Coil (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
Foul :: Foul (n.) An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race..
Unentangle :: Unentangle (v. t.) To disentangle.
Tangled :: Tangled (imp. & p. p.) of Tangl.
Trammel :: Trammel (v. t.) To entangle, as in a net; to catch..
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