MEANING
1. To twist or catch something among other things so that it becomes difficult to free or separate.
2. To involve someone in a difficult, unwanted, or confusing situation or relationship.
Use it for
Something is caught in a tangle, or someone is drawn into a hard-to-escape situation.Works for both physical snaring and the gradual, difficult involvement of a character in a conflict.
On the page
Vines entangled the garden gate until it would not swing open.
Word forms
- Base
- entangle
- Past tense
- entangled
- Past participle
- entangled
- Present participle
- entangling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- entangle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are entangling
- Present perfect
- have/has entangled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been entangling
- Past
- entangled
- Past continuous
- was/were entangling
- Past perfect
- had entangled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been entangling
- Future
- will entangle
- Future continuous
- will be entangling
- Future perfect
- will have entangled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been entangling
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