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Tangled   /tˈæŋgəld/   Listen
Tangled

adjective
1.
In a confused mass.  "The tangled ropes"
2.
Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.  Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tortuous.  "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship" , "Convoluted legal language" , "Convoluted reasoning" , "The plot was too involved" , "A knotty problem" , "Got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering" , "Oh, what a tangled web we weave" , "Tortuous legal procedures" , "Tortuous negotiations lasting for months"


Tangle

verb
(past & past part. tangled; pres. part. tangling)
1.
Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action.  Synonyms: drag, drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up.  "Don't drag me into this business"
2.
Tangle or complicate.  Synonyms: knot, ravel.
3.
Disarrange or rumple; dishevel.  Synonyms: dishevel, tousle.
4.
Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass.  Synonyms: entangle, mat, snarl.



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"Tangled" Quotes from Famous Books



... rope and hung himself to the tamarind. And hence it is (because this traitor Judas was cursed by God) that the tamarind-tree dried up, and from that time on it ceased growing up into a tree and became a short, twisted, and tangled bush; and its wood is good for nothing, neither to burn, nor to make anything out of, and all on account of Judas, who hanged ...
— Italian Popular Tales • Thomas Frederick Crane
... Some of them, I noticed, circled persistently around a large isolated boulder which rose aloft in the midst of the monotonous expanse of sandy shores. Coarse seaweed grew in uneven tufts on one side of the rock; and at the point where its tangled stems emerged from the yellow salt-marsh, there was something black, and long, and arched, and not very large.... I began to look more intently.... Some dark object was lying there—lying motionless beside the stone.... That object became constantly clearer and more distinct the nearer ...
— A Reckless Character - And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... scarcely necessary to tax the mental faculties in imagining what may have been the equivalent to brushes and combs with which the prehistoric woman of thousands of years ago brushed and combed her tangled tresses. She was ingenious enough to break off and trim sharp prickly thorns, and to use them as pins to fasten her scanty home-made garments, no doubt; and she would probably find in Nature's supply what served her when making her toilet, and viewing ...
— Chats on Household Curios • Fred W. Burgess
... the storm broke loose in its fierce madness, so confusing the chain of horses that they stamped and turned until the rope was so tangled that the riders were threatened with being thrown. Even in that awful moment, Polly was glad she tied the beasts to-gether, for surely one or another of them would have bolted or strayed ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... an unbroken line of cliffs, but an undulating shore, with bulging rocks, and lines of reef. After a mile or two of that the coast ran out seaward, and they passed close to a most extraordinary phenomenon of vegetation. Great tangled woods crowned the shore and the landward slopes, and their grand foliage seemed to flow over into the sea; for here was a broad rocky flat intersected with a thousand little channels of the sea; and ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade


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