as in trapped
to catch or hold as if in a net
dolphins sometimes become meshed in fishnets
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Recent Examples of meshed
The city is exploring closer offshore sand sources, and also recently tested gray sand from British Columbia to see how the grains meshed near the lifeguard headquarters.
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Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
The album meshed a loose, indie-rock approach with the sounds of late ’80s R&B and early ’90s pop, as Variety‘s Thania Garcia wrote in her review of the album.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Cornejo’s stirring vocal delivery meshed perfectly with Rio’s equally emotional production style.
—Griselda Flores, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2025
Their ambitions meshed; both were almost mystically persuasive, and stubborn too.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
Our two voices meshed really well.
—Christian John Wikane, People.com, 23 Feb. 2025
Badia said Dublin’s fashion scene is a vibrant tableau of history meshed with contemporary boldness.
—Fairchild Studio, WWD, 22 Feb. 2025
At least not for someone who immediately meshed with teammates and coaches and was an obvious part of the team’s defensive turnaround.
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
While his legs weren’t quite there yet after seven weeks away from game play, his playmaking immediately meshed with his new teammates.
—Khobi Price, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2025
Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
The album meshed a loose, indie-rock approach with the sounds of late ’80s R&B and early ’90s pop, as Variety‘s Thania Garcia wrote in her review of the album.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Cornejo’s stirring vocal delivery meshed perfectly with Rio’s equally emotional production style.
—Griselda Flores, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2025
Their ambitions meshed; both were almost mystically persuasive, and stubborn too.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Aug. 2025
Our two voices meshed really well.
—Christian John Wikane, People.com, 23 Feb. 2025
Badia said Dublin’s fashion scene is a vibrant tableau of history meshed with contemporary boldness.
—Fairchild Studio, WWD, 22 Feb. 2025
At least not for someone who immediately meshed with teammates and coaches and was an obvious part of the team’s defensive turnaround.
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
While his legs weren’t quite there yet after seven weeks away from game play, his playmaking immediately meshed with his new teammates.
—Khobi Price, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meshed
Verb
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Trying to pin down what a novelist actually believes is a sure way to get trapped in a labyrinth of misreadings and fallacies.—
Jeremy Gordon,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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Juno orbits Jupiter once every 33 days, and the trajectory brings the spacecraft through intense radiation belts trapped by the planet's powerful magnetic field.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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This little case keeps rings, necklaces, and earrings neatly tucked away, so nothing gets tangled—or worse, left behind.—
Kayla Kitts,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
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True moral dilemmas, which become tangled in ways that seem impossible to unravel, with his private life.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Lam advocates for a broad reintroduction of discretion, through which people enmeshed in bureaucracies would be given more room to make individual decisions.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2025
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As Stewart makes clear, conjuring has been enmeshed in American life for centuries.—
Danielle Amir Jackson,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Meshed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meshed. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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