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tangled   (TTS Sound)

The verb tangle has 4 senses

• embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in -- (force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business")


• ravel, tangle, knot -- (tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story")


• tousle, dishevel, tangle -- (disarrange or rumple; dishevel; "The strong wind tousled my hair")


• entangle, tangle, mat, snarl -- (twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord")

The adj tangled has 2 senses

• tangled -- (in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes")


• Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous -- (highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months")