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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
Synonyms
Examples for "maze"
Examples for "maze"
1
My friend used to work there, said it was like a maze.
The poison eaters: and other stories
2
The first problem, though, was to find the thing in this maze.
Jacinto's Remnant
3
Spatial learning and memory were assessed by the Morris water maze test.
Pubmed
4
They passed into one of the openings in the maze of uprights.
Space Platform
5
The girl operators were entangled in a maze of civil service rules.
The History of the Telephone
1
The snarl untangled itself; men began to step back and produce pocketlamps.
The Drums of Jeopardy
2
A snarl of fury burst from the throat of the deposed general.
Beverly of Graustark
3
Faith and Grace leaned forward to look at the snarl of traffic.
Faith
4
Ayla felt him leave, and an instant later heard him snarl menacingly.
The Plains of Passage
5
The spitty snarl of the apparatus filled the air for rods roundabout.
Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
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