En·tan·gle v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entangled p. pr. & vb. n. Entangling ]
  1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
  2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. “Entangling alliances.”
     The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings.   --Locke.
     Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain.   --Froude.
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