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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Water Flannel :: Water flannel () A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
Unentangle :: Unentangle (v. t.) To disentangle.
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..
Disengage :: Disengage (v. t.) To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study..
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.
Illaqueate :: Illaqueate (v. t.) To insnare; to entrap; to entangle; to catch.
Disembroil :: Disembroil (v. t.) To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.
Strap-shaped :: Strapple (v. t.) To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle..
Disentangled :: Disentangled (imp. & p. p.) of Disentangl.
Resolve :: Resolve (v. i.) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle..
Rectangle :: Rectangle (n.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.
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..
Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
Disinvolve :: Disinvolve (v. t.) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
Clear :: Clear (v. i.) To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free..
Involve :: Involve (v. t.) To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery..
Unravel :: Unravel (v. t.) To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking..
Insnarl :: Insnarl (v. t.) To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl.
Trammel :: Trammel (v. t.) To entangle, as in a net; to catch..
Hopple :: Hopple (v. t.) Fig.: To entangle; to hamper.
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