Definitions for tangles

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tangles tan·gle

Spelling: [tang-guh l]

IPA: /ˈtæŋ gəl/

Tangles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 265 anagrams from letters in tangles (aeglnst).

Definitions for tangles

noun

1. a tangled condition or situation.
2. a tangled or confused mass or assemblage of something.
3. a confused jumble:
4. Informal. a conflict; disagreement:
5. any of several large seaweeds of the genus Laminaria.

verb (used with object)

1. to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
2. to involve in something that hampers, obstructs, or overgrows:
3. to catch and hold in or as if in a net or snare.

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become tangled.
2. Informal. to come into conflict; fight or argue:

Origin of tangles

1300-50; Middle English tangilen, tagilen to entangle Scandinavian; compare Swedish (dial.) taggla to disarrange

Examples for tangles

He looked backward from the heights above the tangle after they had come through it.

"It wasn't just a tangle, like combings," she went on slowly.

Pettet threw his head back and laughed as he recounted his tangle with the police.

The tangle of groups, funders, and leaders in the black anti-immigration effort—as in the broader movement—can be hard to follow.

There was a tangle of undergrowth, and a heavy grove of palms.

What on earth could I do when affairs were in such a tangle?

It is a nest of greenery in the midst of a tangle of brushwood.

The bloodshed began at the end of the bridge amid a tangle of flyovers near the Egyptian Museum.

The tangle of enormous fake diamonds resting on top of her cleavage sparkles at every flashbulb.

Its solution—a tangle of suspicion that spreads from a police unit to local drug ring—is clever and well constructed.