Entangle \En*tan"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Entangled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Entangling}.] 1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. ``Entangling alliances.'' --Washington.
The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings. --Locke.
Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain. --Froude.
That kind of bill is sure to entangle the lower house in endless wrangling, building immense pressure for an election.
Nothing startlingly new popped up to spook the market this year, but some long-running problems managed to entangle themselves in a way that seems to foreclose any quick turnaround.
Rawls said a diver rescue was considered, but it could be dangerous. "Because this animal is so strong, it could knock the diver into the nets and entangle him," he said.
And major Japanese trading houses and banks are carefully finding ways to help Moscow that won't entangle them in unprofitable trade deals, experts say.