tangle

About 1.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To mix together or intertwine.
2. verb To become mixed together or intertwined.

   Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.

3. verb To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.

   Don't tangle with someone three times your size.

4. verb To catch and hold.
5. noun A tangled twisted mass.
6. noun A complicated or confused state or condition.

   I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere.

7. noun An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
8. noun A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.

Similar words

entangle ravel snarl embroil sweep sweep up tousle complication drag in knot

Often followed by

of with and in that the is was on

Word family

tangled tangles tangling