Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: entangle
IPA transcription: [ɛnt'æŋɡəl]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: entangle, tangle, mat, snarl
    Meaning: twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord"
  • Synonyms: entangle, mire
    Meaning: entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past"
Usage examples
  • She recruits herself with a Locust at longer intervals; she sometimes scorns those whom I myself entangle in her trap.
  • If I had begun in earnest to serve God when I was as young as these children are, how many wrong habits I should have avoided; habits that entangle me now, as in so many nets.
  • Men, upon too many occasions, do not give their own understandings fair play; but, yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle themselves in words and confound themselves in subtleties.