entangle Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb entrap
mire.
- Our people should not be mired in the past
verb twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
snarl; tangle; mat.
- The child entangled the cord

imperfect & past participle Entangled ; present participle & verbal noun Entangling

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.
To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. "Entangling alliances." Washington.
The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings. Locke.

Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain. Froude.