Definition of tangle

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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..

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Outtwine :: Outtwine (v. t.) To disentangle.
Extricate :: Extricate (v. t.) To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc..
Snare :: Snare (n.) Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble..
Soluble :: Soluble (a.) Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble..
Unbraid :: Unbraid (v. t.) To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle..
Unentangle :: Unentangle (v. t.) To disentangle.
Intricacy :: Intricacy (n.) The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot..
Web :: Web (v. t.) To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle..
Evolve :: Evolve (v. t.) To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
Knot :: Knot (v. t.) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
Embarrassment :: Embarrassment (n.) A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness..
Ravel :: Ravel (v. t.) To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
Entrammel :: Entrammel (v. t.) To trammel; to entangle.
Entangle :: Entangle (v. t.) To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair..
Trammel :: Trammel (v. t.) To entangle, as in a net; to catch..
Knotted :: Knotted (a.) Entangled; puzzling; knotty.
Involve :: Involve (v. t.) To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery..
Coil :: Coil (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
Lime :: Lime (v. t.) To entangle; to insnare.
Rectangle :: Rectangle (n.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.
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