Definitions
twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
Word origin
From Middle English tanglen, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Swedish taggla (“to disorder”), Old Norse þǫngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”), see Etymology 2 below.
Used in a sentence
“Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.”
“By the afternoon it seemed as if the storm had passed and that frost was setting in; but in the evening the wind rose to gale force, bringing telegraph poles down like skittles and tangling power and telephone lines.”
“Don't tangle with someone three times your size.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Knot up”6 letters
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