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tangle

/ˈteɪ̯ŋɡəl/ verbe C1

En français : emmêler, enchevêtrer, compliquer, s'emmêler

  1. To mix together or intertwine. (transitive)
  2. To become mixed together or intertwined. (intransitive) · Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.
  3. To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight. (figuratively, intransitive) · Don't tangle with someone three times your size.· He tangled with the law.
  4. To catch and hold. (transitive)

He/she/it tangles · Prétérit tangled · Participe passé tangled · Forme en -ing tangling

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Dans la bibliothèque

Having handled the net, he threw it into the river, but became tangled in the meshes and drowned.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 46 · B2
MacDonald sat with his chin on his hands and his great sandy eyebrows bunched into a yellow tangle.
The Valley of Fear, p. 11 · C1
“I have now in my hands,” my companion said, confidently, “all the threads which have formed such a tangle.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 70 · B2
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.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 4 · C1

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