tangle
- Verb. (intransitive) to become mixed together or intertwined.
- Verb. (intransitive) to be forced into some kind of situation.
- Verb. (intransitive) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- Verb. (transitive) to mix together or intertwine.
- Verb. (transitive) to catch and hold.
- Noun. a tangled twisted mass.
- Noun. a complicated or confused state or condition.
- Noun. an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- Noun. (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- Noun. Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of ''Laminaria''.
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