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tangle

verb

1 Miles found himself tangled in coils of rope | the wool got tangled up in a big knot:

entangle, snarl, catch, entwine, intertwine, intertwist, twist, ravel, knot, enmesh, coil, mat, jumble, muddle.

▷antonyms untangle, disentangle, unravel.

2 he was suffering from minor injuries after tangling with his old rival:

come into conflict, become involved, have a dispute, dispute, argue, quarrel, fight, row, wrangle, squabble, contend, cross swords, lock horns.

noun

1 a tangle of branches:

snarl, mass, mat, cluster, knot, mesh, disorder, thatch, web.

2 the home team's defence got into an awful tangle:

muddle, jumble, mix-up, confusion, entanglement, mishmash, shambles, scramble.

tangle (1) Oxford Dictionary of English