entangles

Verb

entangle (third-person singular simple present entangles, present participle entangling, simple past and past participle entangled)

1. (transitive) To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated.
   • The dolphins became entangled in a fishing net.

   Synonyms:

   enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, foul, implicate, imply, involve, mat, ravel, snarl

   Antonyms:

   disentangle, unsnarl, feeze, tease out, unravel, untangle

2. (transitive) To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.

   Antonyms:

   disentangle

3. (figuratively, transitive) To ensnare.
   • But when I turn away, / Thou, willing me to stay, / Wooest not, nor vainly wranglest; / But, looking fixedly the while, / All my bounding heart entanglest, / In a golden-netted smile; […]1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Madeleine”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza 3, page 19

   Synonyms:

   perplex, bewilder, puzzle, addle, baffle, vex, lose, embroil, stick, stump

   Antonyms:

   disentangle, resolve, unpuzzle, absolve, decipher, get to the bottom of, iron out, meliorate, puzzle out, ravel

4. (transitive) To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse or perplexing circumstances, interests, demands, etc.; to hamper; to bewilder.
   • The story entangles the facts with value judgments.

   Synonyms:

   implicate, involve

   Antonyms:

   disentangle