adjective
in a confused mass
Examples
- pushed back her tangled hair
- the tangled ropes
adjective
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
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- the Byzantine tax structure
- 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"- Sir Walter Scott
- tortuous legal procedures
- tortuous negotiations lasting for months
noun
a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
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- they carved their way through the tangle of vines
noun
something jumbled or confused
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- a tangle of government regulations
verb
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
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- They were swept up by the events
- don't drag me into this business
verb
tangle or complicate
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- a ravelled story
verb
disarrange or rumple
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- dishevel
- The strong wind tousled my hair
verb
twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
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- The child entangled the cord