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tangle
tangle is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses
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- 1noun
To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
- 2noun
To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.
- 3intransitive verb
To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
- 4noun
Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.
- 5verb
A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
- 6verb
An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
- 7noun
something jumbled or confused
"a tangle of government regulations"
- 8noun
a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
"they carved their way through the tangle of vines"
- 9verb
twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
"The child entangled the cord"
- 10verb
disarrange or rumple; dishevel
"The strong wind tousled my hair"
- 11verb
tangle or complicate
"a ravelled story"
- 12verb
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
"They were swept up by the events"
"don't drag me into this business"
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