Definitions for entangle

entangle en·tan·gle

Spelling: [en-tang-guh l]
IPA: /ɛnˈtæŋ gəl/

Entangle is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in entangle (aeeglnnt).

Definitions for entangle

verb (used with object)

  1. to make tangled; ensnarl; intertwine.
  2. to involve in or as in a tangle; ensnare; enmesh:
  3. to involve in difficulties.
  4. to confuse or perplex.

Origin of entangle

First recorded in 1530-40; en-1 + tangle1

Examples for entangle

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

Bunyan rather looked on him as a false friend trying to entangle him.

He meant it as a question, by which he hoped to entangle poor Rose.

It was easy to entangle the two so that the answer fitted with his will, and he walked bewildered.

I was determined to entangle Nepcote, and to free Hazel Rath.

What youve got to remember is that Im not trying to entangle him.

She've no wiles to entangle you with; an' I 'low that she'd despise the use o' them anyhow.

We entangle them in a web of fear, of helplessness and anguish.

At present she has a mission too, which is to entangle me into a compromising position.

Yes; he contrived to entangle himself in some Jacobite plot.

Word Value for entangle
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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