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1. In a confused mass
   "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes"
    
2. Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
   "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"
   - Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tortuous

1. Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
   - embroil, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in
    
2. Tangle or complicate
   - ravel, knot
    
3. Disarrange or rumple; dishevel
   - tousle, dishevel
    
4. Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
   - entangle, mat, snarl

See also: afoul, complex, enmeshed, entangled, foul, fouled, intermeshed, knotty, matted, rootbound, snarled, snarly, thrown [archaic], thrown and twisted [archaic]

Type of: disarrange, distort, enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, involve, lace, twine, twist

Antonym: untangled

Encyclopedia: Tangle