MEANING
1. To entangle in a net, mesh, or interlacing structure.
2. To involve deeply in complicated relationships, obligations, or problems that are hard to escape.
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Words that belong together
- enmesh in a net
- enmeshed strands
On the page
The net enmeshed the struggling appendage.
Threads enmeshed the moving joint before it could retract.
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Word forms
- Base
- enmesh
- Past tense
- enmeshed
- Past participle
- enmeshed
- Present participle
- enmeshing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- enmesh
- Present continuous
- am/is/are enmeshing
- Present perfect
- have/has enmeshed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been enmeshing
- Past
- enmeshed
- Past continuous
- was/were enmeshing
- Past perfect
- had enmeshed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been enmeshing
- Future
- will enmesh
- Future continuous
- will be enmeshing
- Future perfect
- will have enmeshed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been enmeshing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: enmesh; enmeshes; enmeshed; enmeshed; enmeshing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: enmeshes.
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