Synonyms of the word

tangle

• v. (intransitive) to become mixed together or intertwined.
• v. (intransitive) to be forced into some kind of situation.
• v. (intransitive) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
• v. (transitive) to mix together or intertwine.
• v. (transitive) to catch and hold.
• n. A tangled twisted mass.
• n. A complicated or confused state or condition.
• n. An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
• n. (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four…
• n. A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
• n. Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
• n. (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentiallly of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles…

disarrange

• v. To undo the arrangement of; to disorder; to derange.

dishevel

• v. (transitive) To throw into disorder; upheave.
• v. (transitive) To disarrange or loosen (hair, clothing, etc.).

distort

• v. (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
• v. (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of.
• adj. (obsolete) distorted; misshapen.

drag

• n. (uncountable) Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
• n. (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
• n. (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body,…
• n. (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
• n. (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle…
• n. (countable, slang) Horse-drawn wagon or buggy.
• n. (countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'.
• n. (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents.
• n. (countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
• n. A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
• n. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
• n. (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
• n. (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
• n. (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the…
• n. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially,…
• n. A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
• n. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
• v. (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly.
• v. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
• v. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
• v. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
• v. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
• v. (computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.
• v. To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface.
• v. (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
• v. To fish with a dragnet.
• v. To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of…
• v. To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
• v. (figuratively) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
• v. (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
• n. (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
• v. To perform as a drag queen or drag king.

embroil

• v. To draw into a situation; to cause to be involved.
• v. To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.

enlace

• v. To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.

entangle

• v. (transitive) To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated.
• v. (transitive) To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.
• v. (transitive, figuratively), to ensnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle.
• v. (transitive) To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse…

entwine

• v. To twist or twine around something (or one another).

interlace

• n. A technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal primarily on CRT devices without consuming…
• v. (transitive) To cross one with another; to interweave.
• v. to mingle; to blend.
• v. (intransitive) To cross one another as if woven together; to intertwine; to blend intricately.

intertwine

• v. (transitive) To twine something together.
• v. (intransitive) To become twined together.

involve

• v. (archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
• v. (archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
• v. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
• v. (archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily;…
• v. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
• v. To envelop, enfold, entangle.
• v. To engage (someone) to participate in a task.
• v. (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of…

knot

• n. A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without…
• n. (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
• n. A maze-like pattern.
• n. (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction…
• n. A difficult situation.
• n. The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
• n. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
• n. A protuberant joint in a plant.
• n. Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
• n. The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
• n. (engineering) A node.
• n. A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
• n. A group of people or things.
• n. A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
• n. (nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number…
• n. (slang) A nautical mile (incorrectly).
• v. To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
• v. To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
• v. To unite closely; to knit together.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
• n. One of a variety of shore birds; the red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).

lace

• n. (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.^W.
• n. (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten…
• n. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
• n. (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
• v. (transitive) To fasten (something) with laces.
• v. (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
• v. (transitive) To interweave items.
• v. (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
• v. To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
• v. To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.

mat

• n. A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
• n. A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
• n. (athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.
• n. A thickly tangled mess.
• n. A thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
• n. A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
• n. A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
• v. (transitive) To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
• v. (intransitive) To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
• n. (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
• n. (dated slang) Abbreviation of matinee (performance at a theater).
• n. (video games, slang) A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.

maze

• n. A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to…
• n. Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.
• n. Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
• v. to amaze, astonish, bewilder.
• v. to daze, stupefy, or confuse.

perplexity

• n. The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.
• n. Something that perplexes.
• n. A measurement in information theory: see Perplexity.

ravel

• n. a snarl, complication.
• v. To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse.
• v. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle or clarify.
• v. To pull apart (especially cloth or a seam); unravel.
• v. (computing, programming) In the APL language, to reshape (a variable) into a vector.

snarl

• n. A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate…
• n. The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
• n. A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
• n. A slow-moving traffic jam.
• v. To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron…
• v. To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
• v. To embarrass; to ensnare.
• v. To growl, like an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
• v. To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.

sweep

• v. (transitive) To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush.
• v. (intransitive) To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
• v. (transitive) To search (a place) methodically.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To travel quickly.
• v. (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
• v. (curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To move something in a particular motion, as a broom.
• v. (sports, transitive) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
• v. (sports, transitive) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that…
• v. (transitive) To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
• v. To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
• v. To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
• v. To strike with a long stroke.
• v. (nautical) To draw or drag something over.
• v. To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
• n. A single action of sweeping.
• n. The person who steers a dragon boat.
• n. A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
• n. A chimney sweep.
• n. A methodical search, typically for bugs (electronic listening devices).
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
• n. A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team…
• n. A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
• n. (martial arts) A throw or takedown that primarily uses the legs to attack an opponent's legs.
• n. Violent and general destruction.
• n. (metalworking) A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.
• n. (card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
• n. The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
• n. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
• n. A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
• n. (refining, obsolete) The almond furnace.
• n. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise…
• n. Any of the blades of a windmill.
• n. (in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
• n. Any of several sea chubs in the kyphosid subfamily Scorpidinae.

tousle

• v. To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.
• n. The action of ruffling or setting in disorder.

twine

• n. A twist; a convolution.
• n. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various…
• n. The act of twining or winding round.
• n. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
• v. (transitive) To weave together.
• v. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
• v. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
• v. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
• v. (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
• v. (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
• v. (obsolete) To change the direction of.
• v. (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.