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Enmesh

Enmesh \En*mesh"\, v. t. [Pref. en- + mesh. Cf. Inmesh.] To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.
--Shak.

My doubts enmesh me if I try.
--Lowell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enmesh

c.1600, from en- (1) "put in" + mesh (v.). Related: Enmeshed; enmeshing.

Wiktionary
enmesh

vb. 1 To mesh; to tangle or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in a mesh or net like manner. 2 To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult 3 To involve in difficulty.

WordNet
enmesh

v. entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh [syn: mesh, ensnarl]

Usage examples of "enmesh".

I was enmeshed in a crazy, fantastic cobwebbery of magic and witchcraft.

Had the Dosses and their problems somehow become enmeshed with their neighbors?

The text does not seek to resolve the web of contradictions in which Martin Edelweiss finds himself enmeshed.

I felt his hand dig into my enmeshed curls, wrenching my head backward, and stared up at his hooded, gleaming eyes.

Below him, the first slanting rays of the linked suns had penetrated almost to the bottom of the valley, where they lit the spectacle of the phagors fording the katabatic wind, their sturdy bodies enmeshed in writhing fog, the stiff hairs of their coats stirred in their progress.

Phaid found himself enmeshed in a tangle of legs as the Day Oner was wrestled to the ground and dragged away howling and protesting.

Others say that indeed the Smiter is holy because it may alter the event in which all the rest of what is finds itself enmeshed.

After a number of spirits had been taken from a patient who was very unmanageable at first, we had the following experience, which clearly shows the suffering that spirits may endure when enmeshed in the aura of a mortal.

Against these, some two miles away, rose the spectral hump of Federal Hill, bristling with huddled roofs and steeples whose remote outlines wavered mysteriously, taking fantastic forms as the smoke of the city swirled up and enmeshed them.

His arms were enmeshed, so he could not use them to halt his progress, and he shot head first down the wooden steps, like a tobogganist down the Cresta run.

One couple in particular were deeply enmeshed in the act, heart and soul, beaks and limbs and abdomens and thoraxes all convulsing as they embraced each other.

The enmeshing net of social relationships that formed the politics of Buckkeep had snared me, and from within its folds, I struggled to comprehend it all.

Not only was there no foundation of deep and honest love between us, but once again I was enmeshed in the secret business of the Farseer intrigues.

I was enmeshed in a crazy, fantastic cobwebbery of magic and witchcraft.

Hedrick's thinking,' the briefer replied as respectfully as he could, 'but we suspect he is inviting only governments that would not enmesh him in litigation over the ownership of the saucer.