tangled
/ˈtæŋ.ɡəld/ adjective C1- Mixed up, interlaced. · tangled knot
- Intricate.
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Having handled the net, he threw it into the river, but became tangled in the meshes and drowned.
There was the end of this tangled clue.
Anne watched them as she talked and somehow felt that wind and stars and fireflies were all tangled up together into something unutterably sweet and enchanting.
Oh, Marilla, ‘what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.’ That is poetry, but it is true.
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