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.