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Meanings of tangle in English

Catalan
complicació
Spanish
embrollo

Something jumbled or confused.

        complicació
        Portuguese
        ser empurrado

        Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action.

              ser empurrado
              Portuguese
              emaranhar
              Catalan
              embullar
              Spanish
              enredar

              Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass.

                  emaranhar
                  Catalan
                  enredar
                  Spanish
                  urdir

                  Tangle or complicate.

                      enredar
                      Usage of tangle in English
                      1
                      And in the midst of the fleecy tangle Snowball struggled in vain.
                      The Tale of Snowball Lamb
                      2
                      It is the same affair; part and parcel of the same tangle.
                      The Avenger
                      3
                      The state was honeycombed and mined; society was a tangle of plots.
                      Animal Heroes
                      4
                      The lane ended just beyond in a tangle of weeds and undergrowth.
                      The Web of Life
                      5
                      Things are in a sad tangle; I can't see the way out.
                      The House Behind the Cedars
                      6
                      Telephone and telegraph wires depend in a loose tangle from the poles.
                      Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front
                      7
                      Then they saw another girl standing in the tangle of wild grapes.
                      The Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel
                      8
                      Despite huge international success, that tangle-haired teenage maverick hasn't changed a jot.
                      The Guardian
                      9
                      And we absolutely don't want to tangle with that much tribal infantry.
                      Countdown: The Liberators-ARC
                      10
                      He felt it tugging at the line while he unknotted the tangle.
                      The Eternal Maiden
                      11
                      The house lay silent, half smothered in a dark tangle of shrubbery.
                      Birthright: A Novel
                      12
                      The conducting wires break, and cross, and tangle in every imaginable fashion.
                      Preventable Diseases
                      13
                      She was his only hope of getting out of this tangle alive.
                      Deadly little secrets
                      14
                      We know that we move in a tangle of intrigues and espionage.
                      The Snare
                      15
                      A quail whistled from the tangle of blackberry briars by the roadside.
                      The Root of Evil
                      16
                      Perhaps I might have served in unravelling this unhappy tangle of misunderstandings.
                      In the Valley
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                      Translations for tangle
                      Tangle through the time
                      Tangle across language varieties
                      United States of America
                      Common
                      United Kingdom
                      Common
                      Ireland
                      Less common