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enmesh

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en·mesh  (n-msh) also im·mesh (m-)
tr.v. en·meshed, en·mesh·ing, en·mesh·es
To entangle, involve, or catch in or as if in a mesh. See Synonyms at catch.

en·meshment n.
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Verb1.enmesh - entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh
mat, entangle, snarl, tangle - twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord"

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When, on a snowy night, Crow decides to take in a homeless African American teenager to give him a warm place to sleep, little does he know that his good deed will enmesh him in a chain of murders and expose everyone he holds dear to an especially persistent and officious trio of federal investigators.
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As a space socially determined by a selected set of diverse individuals, the installation could be what Fredric Jameson asks for in Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism when he proposes the need for "an aesthetic of cognitive mapping," defined as the mapping of the totality of systems that enmesh the individual, giving the individual a heightened sense of place within the structure of a global society.
 
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