tangled : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tangled	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tangled
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tangled adj in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes" Antonym(s): untangled highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" Synonym(s): Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tangle \Tan"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tangled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tangling}.] [A frequentative fr. tang seaweed; hence, to twist like seaweed. See {Tang} seaweed, and cf. {Tangle}, n.] 1. To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel. 2. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. [bd]Tangled in amorous nets.[b8] --Milton. When my simple weakness strays, Tangled in forbidden ways. --Crashaw.