All tangle synonyms
tanΒ·gle
T t verb tangle
- misarrange β to arrange incorrectly or improperly: to misarrange a file.
- misdeem β To misjudge, to deem wrongly.
- buffaloed β any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- confuse β If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
- lead on β to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
- live with β to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- cope β If you cope with a problem or task, you deal with it successfully.
- have it β (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- intertangle β (transitive) To entangle; to intertwine.
- go against β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- mix it up β to combine (substances, elements, things, etc.) into one mass, collection, or assemblage, generally with a thorough blending of the constituents.
- interbred β to crossbreed (a plant or animal).
- hold one's own β of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
- mistake β an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- interknit β to knit together, one with another; intertwine.
- wrangle β to argue or dispute, especially in a noisy or angry manner.
- disorienting β to cause to lose one's way: The strange streets disoriented him.
- interbreed β to crossbreed (a plant or animal).
- implicate β to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
- hybridise β to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- complicate β To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
- mismatched β Simple past tense and past participle of mismatch.
- mix β to combine (substances, elements, things, etc.) into one mass, collection, or assemblage, generally with a thorough blending of the constituents.
- make waves β a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- get to β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- hybridised β Simple past tense and past participle of hybridise.
- felted β simple past tense and past participle of feel.
- have it out β Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- felting β a nonwoven fabric of wool, fur, or hair, matted together by heat, moisture, and great pressure.
- crisscrossing β crossing over each other
- got to β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
noun tangle
- gnarl β a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.
- intricateness β The state or quality of being intricate; intricacy.
- mop β a wry face; grimace.
- boscage β a mass of trees and shrubs; thicket
- knot β either of two large sandpipers, Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris, that breed in the Arctic and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
- lacework β lace (def 1).
- helix β a spiral.
- woof β filling (def 5).
- mix-up β a confused state of things; muddle; tangle.
- muddle β to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
- cordage β the lines and rigging of a vessel
- jungle β a novel (1906) by Upton Sinclair.
- mess β a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- confusion β If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
- maze β a confusing network of intercommunicating paths or passages; labyrinth.
- dishevelment β to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- disarray β to put out of array or order; throw into disorder.
- entrapment β The state of being entrapped.