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Entangled   /ɛntˈæŋgəld/   Listen
Entangled

adjective
1.
Deeply involved especially in something complicated.  Synonym: embroiled.  "Felt unwilling entangled in their affairs"
2.
Twisted together in a tangled mass.
3.
Involved in difficulties.


Entangle

verb
(past & past part. entangled; pres. part. entangling)
1.
Entrap.  Synonym: mire.
2.
Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass.  Synonyms: mat, snarl, tangle.  Antonyms: unsnarl, disentangle.



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"Entangled" Quotes from Famous Books



... give you the proofs, and you can carry them to Lieutenant Gordan, who will follow it up, and see that Merriwell is expelled. In that way, I will not get entangled, and ...
— Frank Merriwell's Chums • Burt L. Standish
... knocked out of the chauffeur's hand. With a blow of a chair, the chauffeur laid out Smith, entangled in his unfamiliar garments, shook himself loose from the two others, and made a rush at ...
— The Romance of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve
... that a canal-boat going up encountered another going down, and vice versa. Then care has to be exercised by the respective drivers lest their lines get entangled. ...
— From Canal Boy to President - Or The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... themselves, but Cook continued to advance without noticing the absence of his party until he had discharged his gun with effect, when he immediately retreated, but after running some distance to a large tree, for the purpose of shelter in firing, he unfortunately got entangled in the tops of fallen timber, and halting for a moment, received a ball which struck him just below the shoulder blade, and came out below his collar bone. In the meantime, on the main field of battle, at the distance of fifty yards, the fight raged with great fury, lasting one hour and three-quarters. ...
— Heroes and Hunters of the West • Anonymous
... the morality of the means taken. Thus the blow under which Agamemnon sank was neither more nor less guiltily struck because it was dealt with an axe, because it was under pretence of giving him a bath, or because his feet were entangled in a long robe. These circumstances are all irrelevant. Those only are relevant which attach some special reasonableness or unreasonableness to the thing done Thus the provocation that Clytemnestra had from her husband's introduction of Cassandra into her house made her act of vengeance less unreasonable: ...
— Moral Philosophy • Joseph Rickaby, S. J.


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