Entangled

Definitions: Entangled

Entangled

Adjective

1. Deeply involved especially in something complicated; "embroiled in the conflict"; "felt unwilling entangled in their affairs".

2. Twisted together in a tangled mass; "toiled through entangled growths of mesquite".

3. Involved in difficulties.

Date "entangled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Entangled

Synonym: embroiled (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Complexity	Adjective: gnarled, knarled. complex, complexed; intricate, complicated, perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable; irreducible.
Difficulty	Embarrassing, perplexing; (uncertain); delicate, ticklish, critical; beset with difficulties, full of difficulties, surrounded by difficulties, entangled by difficulties, encompassed with difficulties.
Mixture	Be mixed; get among, be entangled with.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Entangled

English words defined with "entangled": catch ♦ embroiled, entangle ♦ Foul anchor ♦ Immersed, Implex, In a fang, involved ♦ mat, mired ♦ Sleave, snarl ♦ Taglock, tangle, Tangly, To fall foul of, To run afoul of ♦ Water flannel. (references)

Specialty definitions using "entangled": Bianca ♦ Dead Lock ♦ Hedges ♦ Ill Omens, intortus ♦ LAP-UPS ♦ Machinery, Meshes, Models ♦ Og ♦ SYNTHETIC-FILAMENT EXTRUDER ♦ Walking. (references)

Etymologies containing "entangled": Entangle. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Entangled in your web ("BETTER BE GOOD TO ME"; performing artist: Tina Turner)
Movie/TV Titles	Molly Entangled (1917) Hearts Entangled (1913) Entangled (1996)
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Domain	Title
Books	Entangled Allies: U.S. Policy Toward Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus (reference) Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon (reference) Entangled Evolutions: Media and Democratization in Eastern Europe (reference) Entangled in Terror: The Azef Affair and the Russian Revolution (reference) Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific (reference) (more book examples)
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	A view of the power block as the net is coming on board. The tremendous power of the winches hauling the net through the powerblock rips apart fish entangled in the net.Credit: Fisheries.		The net is now closing in a nearly perfect circle. The purse seiner is now starting to pull the net back on board. The workboat is seen to the left and is secured to the ship. It is now acting like a tugboat and is pulling the purse seiner away from the net so that it does not become entangled.Credit: Fisheries.
	Entangled elephant seal.Credit: Fisheries.		Hawaiian monk seal entangled in rope.Credit: Fisheries.
	Sea turtle entangled in derelict gillnet.Credit: Fisheries.		Scott Gudes buries a dead pelican that was removed from the mangroves where it was entangled in discarded monofilament.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	A Brown Pelican, one of the species commonly entangled in discarded fishing line, rests at the entrance to Maximo Park. Volunteers and NOAA and Tampa Baywatch staff departed from Maximo Park to begin the clean-up activities around Tampa Bay.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		A Great Egret, Casmerodius albus, preens in a tree on an island in Tampa Bay. Great Egrets are another species of bird that become entangled in discarded fishing line in their roosting habitat.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	Tampa Baywatch and McDill Airforce Base pontoon boats assist in the clean-up and rescue of entangled birds.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		Figure 37. Spring messengers with rotating closing mechanisms. In 1923, the Danish scientist Martin Knudsen described and tested this type of messenger. The goal was to find a form and weight of messenger that would rapidly descend a cable without becoming entangled. Subsequently messengers of this type were most frequently used on research ships throughout the world.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
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Author	Quotation
Samuel Johnson	Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	She did not mean to have her own affections entangled again, and it would be incumbent on her to avoid any encouragement of his.
Alice in Wonderland	Carroll, Lewis	Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	I do not allow myself to be entangled with nonsense.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	They were secret and enflaming but her image was not entangled by them.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Worker Rights	Pakistan	In October 2000, Fayyaz Ahmad, a child worker in a textile mill, died as a result of injuries he sustained when his clothing became entangled in machinery. (references)
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	The free men of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Entangled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 62.71% of the time. "Entangled" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	62.71%	37	56,631
Lexical Verb (past tense)	18.64%	11	106,044
Adjective (general or positive)	18.64%	11	106,044
Total	100.00%	59	N/A

Expressions using "entangled": be entangled ♦ be entangled with ♦ become entangled ♦ become entangled in ♦ become entangled with ♦ entangled by difficulties ♦ get entangled ♦ get entangled with smb.. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "entangled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i ngatërruar (embarrassing, embroiled, haywire, immersed, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mixed, muddy, tangly, tricky, woozy), i kokolepsur. (various references)

Arabic		‏متورط (embroiled, engaged, implicated, involved), ‏متشابك (criss cross, twisted), ‏معقد (busy, complicate, complicated, convoluted, deep, difficult, doctrinarian, inextricable, intricacy, intricate, invalid, involute, knotted, knotty, nasty, perplexing, snarled, sophisticated, tangled, tangly, tricky), ‏واقع في الشرك. (various references)

Bulgarian		впримчен, вплетен. (various references)

Chinese		羸 (lean), 卷入 (Embroil, Embroiled, Embroiling, Entangle, Entangling). (various references)

Czech		zapletený. (various references)

Danish		sammenfiltrede fibre (entangled fibres). (various references)

Dutch		verwarde vezels (entangled fibres), verward haar (entangled hair). (various references)

Finnish		sotkeutua (be involved, become confused, get entangled, get stuck, lose the thread), kietoutua (become entangled in, intertwine, wind). (various references)

French		tomber dans un piège, impliqué (engaged), compliqué. (various references)

German		verwickelt (complicated, confused, convoluted, embroils, entangles, foul, implicates, inextricable, intricate, intricately, involved, involves, knotty, tangly), umschlang (entwined). (various references)

Hungarian		megzavart (bemused, disconcerted, out of joint). (various references)

Indonesian		tergulat, kacau (disordered, disorderly, muddle). (various references)

Italian		progetto Cicli misti dello zolfo e del carbonio negli ecosistemi dominati dal fitoplancton Phaeocystis (Entangled Sulphur and CArbon cycles in Phaeocystis-denominated Ecosystems project, ESCAPE), ingarbugliare (complicate, confuse, entangle, garble, get entangled), imbrogliare (cheat, cozen, diddle, do, embroil, entangle, entrap, fob, fool, garble, get confused, get entangled, get tangled, hocus, mix up, mystify, overreach, rook, sell, spoof, swindle, tangle, trick), fibre aggrovigliate (entangled fibres), aggrovigliare (entangle, get entangled, snarl, tangle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		交錯した (complicated, intricate, mingled). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うさくした (complicated, intricate, mingled). (various references)

Manx		tramman (amiss, elder, foul, foul as rope, tangled), neurea (lumpy, rough, scraggy, uneven, uneven as ground). (various references)

Pig Latin		entangleday

Portuguese		fibras emaranhadas (entangled fibres). (various references)

Romanian		obscur (abstruse, cloudy, confused, dark, darksome, dim, dull, foggy, gloomy, indistinct, murk, obscure, obscurely, recondite, tenebrous, unknown, unnoticed). (various references)

Russian		запутанный (anfractuous, complected, complicated, crinkum-crankum, Daedalian, embroiled, implex, inextricable, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, perplexed, tangly), путаный (muddy, wrong-headed). (various references)

Scottish		achrannach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		upetljan (embroiled, involved, tangly). (various references)

Spanish		enredado (implicated, involved, tangled). (various references)

Swedish		trasslig (perplexed, tangled), intrasslad. (various references)

Turkish		karma karışık, karışmış (afoul, confused, foul, in disorder, involved, inwrought, mingled, mixed, puzzled), dolaşık (circuitous, entwined, foul, kinky, mazy, tortuous), bulaşmış (immersed, involved), çapraşık (complicated, inexplicit, perplexed, recondite). (various references)

Turkmen		bulaюyk. (various references)

Ukranian		заплутаний (complex, complicated, implicate, inextricable, intricate, involved, knotted, knotty, mazy, muzzy, perplexed, tangled, wandered), плутаний (addle, disconnected, discursive, muddy, pell mell, pellmell, puzzle-headed, wrongheaded). (various references)

Welsh		clymog (knotty). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	inreto, inreto, irreto, perplexi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Exodus Chapter 14, Verse 3
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai erei faraw tw law autou oi uioi israhl planwntai outoi en th gh sugkekleiken gar autouV h erhmoV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Dicturusque est Pharao super filiis Israhel coartati sunt in terra conclusit eos desertum
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And Pharao is to sey vpon the sones of Yrael, Thei ben artid togidere in a loond, desert hath enclosid hem.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	For Pharao will saye of the childern of Israel: they are tagled in the lod the wildernesse hath shott the in.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land.
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Language	Exodus Chapter 14, Verse 3
Cebuano	Ug si Faraon magaingon mahatungod sa mga anak sa Israel: Nalit-ag sila sa yuta, ang kamingawan naglukob kanila.
Croatian	Faraon æe reæi: 'Izraelci lutaju krajem tamo-amo; pustinja ih zatvorila.'
Danish	Farao vil da tænke om Israeliterne, at de er faret vild i Landet, og at Ørkenen har sluttet dem inde;
Dutch	Farao dan zal zeggen van de kinderen Israels: Zij zijn verward in het land; die woestijn heeft hen besloten.
Finnish	Ja farao on ajatteleva, että israelilaiset ovat eksyneet maassa ja että erämaa on saartanut heidät.
French	Pharaon dira des enfants d`Israël: Ils sont égarés dans le pays; le désert les enferme.
German	Denn Pharao wird sagen von den Kindern Israel: Sie sind verirrt im Lande; die Wüste hat sie eingeschlossen.
Haitian Creole	Farawon an pral mete nan tèt li pèp Izrayèl la pèdi nan peyi a, yo pa konn kote pou yo fè nan dezè a.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Raja Mesir akan menyangka bahwa orang Israel sedang mengembara di negeri ini dan tersesat di padang gurun.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Kemudian kata Firaun kelak akan hal bani Israel: Mereka itu sudah sesat jalannya dan padang belantara itu sudah melengkung mereka itu.
Italian	Il faraone penser� degli Israeliti: Vanno errando per il paese; il deserto li ha bloccati!
Korean	�" 로 가 이 스 라 엘 자 손 에 대 하 여 말 하 기 를 ` 그 �"� 이 그 땅 에 서 아 �"� 하 여 광 야 에 갇 힌 �" 되 었 다 � 지 라'
Maori	A e kiia nga tama a Iharaira e Parao, E pohehe ana ratou i te whenua, kua tutakina mai ratou e te koraha.
Norwegian	Farao vil da si om Israels barn: De farer vill i landet, ørkenen har lukket dem inne.
Rumanian	Faraon va zice despre copiii lui Israel: ,S`au rqtqcit prin yarq; ki knchide pustia.`
Swedish	Men Farao skall tänka att Israels barn hava farit vilse i landet och blivit instängda i öknen.
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Derivations
	Words ending with "entangled": disentangled. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Entangled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emtangle, entagled, entagnled, Estanguet. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "entangled" (pronounced enta"ngguld)
7	-t a" ng g u l d	tangled.
6	-a" ng g u l d	angled, dangled, jangled, mangled, newfangled, spangled, strangled, wangled, wrangled.
5	-ng g u l d	bungled, commingled, intermingled, mingled, singled.
4	-g u l d	bedraggled, boggled, giggled, haggled, juggled, ogled, smuggled, straggled, struggled, toggled.
3	-u l d	addled, ambled, annulled, assembled, babbled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, befuddled, belittled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, bottled, bridled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bundled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, coddled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cuddled, cycled, dabbled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, dwindled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, handled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, huddled, humbled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, jostled, jumbled, kindled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, ladled, leveled, levelled, libeled, manhandled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mishandled, mislabeled, modeled, mottled, muddled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, nettled, nibbled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rankled, rattled, raveled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resembled, resettled, reshuffled, reveled, riddled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumbled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, sizzled, snarled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, stumbled, subtitled, swindled, tabled, tackled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, trickled, tripled, troubled, trundled, tumbled, tussled, unbridled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, whistled, whittled, widdled, wobbled, wrestled, wrinkled.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-l-n-n-t"
	-1 letter: entangle.
	-2 letters: angeled, elegant, gelated, gentled, gleaned, latened, legated, negated, tangled.
	-3 letters: aneled, angled, anteed, dangle, delate, dental, eaglet, elated, ennead, gannet, gelant, gelate, gentle, lagend, lateen, leaden, leaned, legate, legend, lenten, neaten, negate, tanged, tangle, tanned, telega.
	-4 letters: agene, agent, aglee, aglet, anele, anent, angel, angle, anted, dealt, delta, eagle, eaten, eland, elate.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-l-n-n-t"
	+2 letters: delineating, disentangle, nondelegate.
	+3 letters: disentangled, disentangles, nondelegates, nonregulated.
	+4 letters: credentialing, demyelinating, interpleading.
	+5 letters: acknowledgment, credentialling, decentralizing, heartrendingly, nonhalogenated.
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