Entangle Definition

ĕn-tănggəl
entangled, entangles, entangling
verb
entangled, entangles, entangling
To involve in or as in a tangle; catch, as in a net, vine, etc., so that escape is difficult; ensnare.
Webster's New World
To involve in difficulty.
Webster's New World
To cause to be tangled or confused; complicate.
Webster's New World
To cause (the quantum states of two or more objects) to become correlated in such a way that they remain correlated, even though the objects are separated spatially.
American Heritage
To confuse mentally; perplex.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Entangle

  • From the Middle English entanglen (“to involve [someone] in difficulty”, “to embarrass”). Equivalent to en- +‎ tangle.

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Entangle Sentence Examples

  • The great danger was that they might entangle Austria in a war with Russia.

  • That part of their individual universes will not entangle.

  • Slightly larger flagellates and small ciliates prompt the spines to bend and curl so as to entangle the prey more thoroughly.

  • But the universal spider as he called Louis XI.was weaving his web in the darkness, and was eventually to entangle him in it.

  • The greatest variety of episodical matter is thus introduced; but the propriety of the occasion and the mode of introduction are such that no complaint can be made; the episodes never entangle, encumber or even unpleasantly interrupt the main narrative.

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Words Starting With

EENENT

Words Ending With

ELEGLE

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Words Starting With E and Ending With E

Starts With E & Ends With EStarts With EN & Ends With EStarts With E & Ends With LE

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With E8 Letter Words Ending With E