tangle with

verb

tangled with; tangling with; tangles with

informal

: to fight or argue with (someone or something)

He's not someone I would want to tangle with.

Examples of tangle with in a Sentence

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Since then, the family's grief has been tangled with confusion over what happened — adding that Jonah Neal wasn't the type to want to hurt anyone. — Juliana Kim, NPR, 13 July 2026

Folarin Balogun was given a red card in the 64th minute after getting tangled with defender Tarik Muharemovic and stepping on his ankle. — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026

The other nine suspects were members of three other gangs that tangled with McKillville, Clark said. — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 30 June 2026

Burbank’s environmental determinism was tangled with a settler-colonial impulse to imbue the wild landscape with Western ideals of control and organization to not only manage but also improve populations, in both plants and humans. — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 25 June 2026