tangle
noun
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something jumbled or confused“a tangle of government regulations”maze
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a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven“they carved their way through the tangle of vines”
verb
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twist together or entwine into a confusing mass“The child entangled the cord”mat
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disarrange or rumpletousledishevel
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tangle or complicateknot
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force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of actiondrag