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ENTAN'GLE, from tangle. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated to make confused or disordered as, thread, yarn or ropes may be entangled to entangle the hair.

1. To involve in any thing complicated, and from which it is difficult to extricate one's self as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.

2. To lose in numerous or complicated involutions, as in a labyrinth.

3. To involve in difficulties to perplex to embarrass as, to entangle a nation in alliances.

4. To puzzle to bewilder as, to entangle the understanding.

5. To insnare by captious questions to catch to perplex to involve in contradictions.

The Pharisees took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. Matthew 22 .

6. To perplex or distract, as with cares.

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life. 2 Timothy 2

7. To multiply intricacies and difficulties.