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Meanings of tangle (tangling) 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
Synonyms
Examples for "knot"
Examples for "knot"
1
I think the problem is coming as the knot is going down.
Wired
2
Situated in the knot joining the ribbons that hold the Fishes together.
A Field Book of the Stars
3
The reports said they would tie the knot during a private ceremony.
Reuters
4
This will prevent the knot from flipping, thus creating an auto-blocking system.
Climbing Magazine
5
Soon after, Doug and Lana tied the knot at the Great Northern.
The Secret History of Twin Peaks
1
Given her feelings about you ravel, I think she showed remarkable restraint.
The Wise Man’s Fear
2
No more worrying that his love had started to ravel and fade.
Flesh and blood
3
Fasten the ends with pins and ravel out for a tassel.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
4
Press it with a hot iron, and then ravel it out.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at H...
5
A spot of brightness trailed a thin, pronged ravel of light.
Knight of the Demon Queen
Usage of tangling in English
1
This will help prevent the rope from tangling and thus save time.
Climbing Magazine
2
But both manifestos are flawed and avoid tangling too much with reality.
Reuters
3
He lowered it to the floor carefully to avoid tangling its strings.
The Wise Man’s Fear
4
Queasiness swelled inside her, tangling with questions that would never be answered.
Table for five
5
Her thoughts seemed to thread themselves around me in great, tangling swirls.
A Stir of Echoes
6
Eve Myles is going from tangling with extraterrestrials to raising a human.
Wired
7
It's an amalgamation, a mangling and a dangling and a tangling thing.
Life
8
It slowly rotated, two of its limbs tangling, and leaned toward Maker-of-Moons.
Halo Silentium
9
I put the flashlight between my knees and retied my tangling hair.
Murder most frothy
10
Water dripped down my face from my hair, tangling in my eyelashes.
Blue Moon
11
She shook her head, her long, gray hair tangling over her shoulders.
The accidental demon slayer
12
That was a show, a demon dog tangling with a water spirit.
John Winchester’s Journal
13
Gregoire found that the substance worked great on his tackle to reduce tangling.
Mental floss presents instant knowledge
14
They would wax the thread to keep it from rolling up and tangling.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
15
Not even the hardest criminals thought about tangling with the knights.
The last page
16
We spin out of control, bat wings tangling with feathered ones.
World After
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Translations for tangling
Tangling through the time
Tangling across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common