Word Finder - tangled

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To become mixed together or intertwined

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Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.

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To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight

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Don't tangle with someone three times your size.

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To mix together or intertwine

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To catch and hold; to ensnare.

She sighed and ran fingers through her tangled hair.

Her foot became tangled in the bedroll and she sprawled on the floor.

Donnie got his skies tangled up, trying to move away.

The mesquite varies in size from a tangled thorny shrub to a spreading tree as much as 3 ft.

Their tangled relationships, marriages, personal and professional triumphs and tragedies tie them together.

Even if you are extra-careful and wash your laundry on the gentle cycle, the straps can get stretched when tangled with other laundry.

On the tangled politics of this period, especially Mesopotamia's relations with the north-west, the Boghaz-Keui documents may be expected to throw a great deal of light.

In the dim light he forced his horse through a tangled thicket overhanging a steep and rocky declivity.

The Tanglewood Music Festival has a slightly tangled tale to tell of its origins.

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

My past is such an enigma; this business really tangled me up.

He killed his wives in cold blood after they gave birth to his sons, until he tangled with the demoness that was Rhyn's mother.

Fate was both vengeful and impassioned in his treatment of past-Deidre, and Gabe sorted through the tangled web that marked the tumultuous relationship between Fate and past-Death.

The night was long and cold.  Deidre slept, and Katie drifted between a fitful doze and her thoughts.  Dawn crept across the jungle, peering first from the tangled branches overhead then inching through the trees.  As soon as she could see well enough, Katie crawled to Deidre's feet.  The woman continued to sleep, and Katie looked her over.  She looked like any other college student in cargo pants and a light sweater.  Deidre's long, flaxen hair was in a messy braid, and her skin was pale.

Every road in London would be a cat's cradle of tangled cables.

I came across a Mermaid's Purse, with a young dogfish still alive inside, tangled around the base of a kelp.

Now he lay in a tangled heap amid the main halyard.

Within 48 hours, the printing presses of the newspaper lay in a twisted, tangled heap, destroyed by anti-tank explosives.

The totally tangled Charizard tumbles head over tail through the playground - and gets its head stuck inside of a giant igloo!

My mind is a tangled knot I can no longer untie.

The cotton was cleaned and opened and then fed into the machine where the tangled mess was stretched and straightened.

Each fungus will have vast numbers of these hyphae, all intertwining to make up a tangled web called the mycelium.

I always found baby palmettos tangled in the webs when I dusted periodically.

Hi bilbo, I quite agree, most people tangled with the banks will never prosper.

He weaves a wistful skein of from the frayed and tangled threads of our everyday lives.

His headache pounded, tangled skeins of explosive truth binding him.

One of them had his feet tangled up in a chair, so I knew they had gone down under the power of God.

Nest in dense reeds, tangled brambles or tall grass tussocks.

She gave an experimental twirl herself, laughing a little as her legs tangled and she almost lost her balance.

For 30 minutes no manakins called then the explosive note tore out of the tangled gully undergrowth.

All in all, then, it's a book that starts very well but gets tangled up in its own wormholes.

This unmethodical method produces in her longer and more ambitious novels, in Consuelo for instance and its continuation, a tangled wilderness, the clue to which is lost or forgotten; but in her novelettes, when there is no change of scenery and the characters are few and simple, it results in the perfection of artistic writing, " an art that nature makes."

Haydon in 1844, making good the route from Port Phillip to Gipps' Land with loaded drays, through a dense tangled scrub, which had been described by Strzelecki as his worst obstacle.

Naturally, this idea is tangled in a quagmire of issues about authorship, editing, context and reception.

Wire caught and tripped them and tangled them, but they stumbled on.

Can it produce a bumper harvest or are there too many crops tangled together?

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Prepare planting holes well, adding plenty of organic matter, and tease apart tangled roots.

All in all, then, it 's a book that starts very well but gets tangled up in its own wormholes.

Regular grooming will keep your cat's fur from becoming matted and tangled.

You don't want to find that your child has mistaken a jar of buttons for candy or that your precious kitty has become hopelessly tangled in a basket of ribbons.

No matter how organized you might be, decorating always seems like a nightmare; decorations aren't where they are supposed to be and lights miraculously became tangled in an untouched box.

Mike Tyson's daughter, Exodus, died in May 2009 from injuries she sustained when a treadmill cord became tangled around her neck.

My problem is that I have to go get the box out, and then I have to go digging through tangled spools of ribbons to find just the right one for Cappy's hair.

For covering roots, banks, mounds, pillars, etc., these are excellent, forming at last huge tangled masses of the greatest beauty and elegance in the wild garden.

It is all too easy for an earring to become separated from the other one of the pair or for a chain to get tangled up with other items and broken.

Everyone has experienced the frustration of finding a single earring at the bottom of a drawer or of discovering an earring tangled within a chain, causing damage to both the chain and the earring.

Hanging earrings from an earring tree means that drops from an earring do not get tangled or twisted.

A jewelry box that also includes a necklace carousel will help to keep her precious possessions from getting tangled.

Tangled in lines of code is Crytek's proprietary game engine called CryENGINE 2.