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1
as in tangling
to twist together into a usually confused mass
in the process of taking down the Christmas tree, we managed to entangle the string of lights into a hopeless mess of wires
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as in trapping
to catch or hold as if in a net
the young runaway gradually became entangled in a web of lies
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as in complicating
to make complex or difficult
the history of Alexander the Great is entangled by variant accounts of his exploits
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“Entangling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entangling. Accessed 27 Sep. 2023.
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