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Word entry · 6 letters

tangle

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"Knot up"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈtæŋ.ɡəl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aeglntStarts with TEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1T2A3N4G5L6E

Definitions

  1. 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

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