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ENTANGLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Twisted together in a tangled mass
Example:
toiled through entangled growths of mesquite
Classified under:
Similar:
tangled (in a confused mass)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Involved in difficulties
Classified under:
Similar:
unfree (hampered and not free; not able to act at will)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Deeply involved especially in something complicated
Example:
felt unwilling entangled in their affairs
Synonyms:
embroiled; entangled
Classified under:
Similar:
involved (connected by participation or association or use)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb entangle
Context examples:
This message makes it even more essential that we should not lose an hour in letting Hilton Cubitt know how matters stand, for it is a singular and a dangerous web in which our simple Norfolk squire is entangled.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Fortunate that your affections were not farther entangled!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and is now desirous of getting those letters back.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
