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Adjective tangled has 2 senses
- tangled - in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes"
Antonyms: untangled, disentangled, loosened, unsnarled
- Byzantine, convoluted, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous - highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
Antonym: simple (indirect, via complex)
Verb tangle has 4 senses
- embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in - force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"
--1 is one way to involve
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
- ravel, tangle, knot - tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"
--2 is one way to intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- tousle, dishevel, tangle - disarrange or rumple; dishevel; "The strong wind tousled my hair"
--3 is one way to disarrange
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- entangle, tangle, mat, snarl - twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord"
--4 is one way to twist, twine, distort
Sample sentence:
They tangle their hair
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