entangle

entangle is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. verb. twist together or entwine into a confusing mass

   "The child entangled the cord"

   Synonyms: mat, snarl, tangle

4. verb. entrap

   "Our people should not be mired in the past"

   Synonyms: mire

Synonyms

mat, snarl, tangle, mire

Common word forms

entangled, entangler, entangles, entangling, entangleable, entanglement

Words from these letters

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