tangle
/ˈteɪ̯ŋɡəl/ verb C1- To mix together or intertwine.
- To become mixed together or intertwined. · Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.
- To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight. · Don't tangle with someone three times your size.· He tangled with the law.
- To catch and hold.
He/she/it tangles · Past tangled · Past participle tangled · -ing form tangling
Verb forms
- Base form
- tangle
- He/she/it
- tangles
- Past
- tangled
- Past participle
- tangled
- -ing form
- tangling
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Having handled the net, he threw it into the river, but became tangled in the meshes and drowned.
MacDonald sat with his chin on his hands and his great sandy eyebrows bunched into a yellow tangle.
“I have now in my hands,” my companion said, confidently, “all the threads which have formed such a tangle.
Its windows looked east and west; through the west one, looking out on the back yard, came a flood of mellow June sunlight; but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
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