Tangle - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
verb
- tangle or complicate (syn: knot, ravel)
- disarrange or rumple; dishevel (syn: dishevel, tousle)
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass (syn: entangle, mat, snarl)
Extra examples
This fishing line tangles easily.
...was at last tangled in the web of lies that he had told to everyone...
This string is all in a tangle.
I've tangled with him.
My hair tangles easily.
His parachute became tangled in the wheels of the plane.
It was not an animal you'd care to tangle with.
Her hair was full of tangles after being out in the wind.
John was sitting on the floor in a tangle of blankets.
She followed him, pushing through the dense tangle of bushes and branches.
Her brain was teeming with a whole tangle of emotions.
She got into a tangle with the staff.
The child entangled the cord
...mid a tangle of weeds grew a perfect rose...
...plaited the doll's hair so it wouldn't tangle...
Word forms
I/you/we/they: tangle
he/she/it: tangles
present participle: tangling
past tense: tangled
past participle: tangled
singular: tangle
plural: tangles
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