The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entangle \En*tan"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entangled; p. pr. & vb. n. Entangling.]
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.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. entanglement vb. (present participle of entangle English)
Usage examples of "entangling".
They watched in blank amazement as the prow of the Sea Sprite smashed into their port flank, entangling the two ships in a deadly embrace.
The contraption twirled as it flew, entangling many lines, fouling up the caravel's rigging.
Still the balor swept by, entangling Wulfgar's ankles with his whip and tugging the man from the ledge to send him bouncing among the ice mounds of the slushy floor.
Thanks to his silver ring, Pharaun could tell it was a spider wand, a weapon capable of entangling him in sticky webbing.
He stepped out of the entangling denim and kicked it away, seizing her simultaneously and falling back on the bed with her in his arms, cradling her against his chest.
Automatically he tried to step away from her entangling arms but she lunged for him.
She gave him a cold look, suddenly relishing the idea of a good, clean battle, free of entangling emotions.
Then, without the weight of the boards dragging at her, he was able to get enough slack in the fabric of her nightgown to work it free of the entangling wood.
Muttering in his sleep, the Turmishman struggled feebly, trying to kick off the blanket entangling his legs, but he did not awaken.
Two vines succeeded in entangling the dragon, one in the middle of the neck, the other near the base of the right wing.
She managed to rise above the gaping mouth, but a tree-weighted vine shot out at her, entangling her neck and her wings.
Let us above all things avoid as much as possible entangling ourselves with their wars and politics.
Ever calm and outwardly serene, laborate and involved, Ember's thoughts turned in on themselves, knotting and entangling until he suspected his own suspicions, deceived himself with his own lies.
He fought his way through the ipomoea, the perennial morning glory whose vines plagued the castle and garrison in a spreading, entangling joke.
Her dagger flashed as she quickly cut him free from the entangling net.