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tan·gled

(tăng′gəld)

adj.

Complicated and difficult to unravel. See Synonyms at complex.

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tangled

(ˈtæŋɡəld)

adj

twisted together; messy or untidycomplicated

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Adj.	1.	tangled - in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes" untangled - not tangled
	2.	tangled - 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" tortuous, convoluted, Byzantine, knotty, involved complex - complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"

tangled

adjective

1. knotted, twisted, matted, messy, snarled, jumbled, entangled, knotty, tousled tugging a comb through her tangled hair

2. complicated, involved, complex, confused, messy, mixed-up, convoluted, knotty His personal life has become more tangled than ever.

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tangled

adjective

Difficult to understand because of intricacy:

byzantine, complex, complicated, convoluted, daedal, Daedalian, elaborate, intricate, involute, involved, knotty, labyrinthine.

Translations

مَشْبوك، مُشْتَبِك

rozcuchanýspletený

verwirrt

en désordre

gubancos

flæktur

aggrovigliato

spletitýzamotaný

zavozlanzmršen

arap saçına dönmüşdolanmışdolaşmış

纷乱的

tangled

[ˈtæŋgld] ADJ [hair, wool] → enredado, enmarañado (fig) → enmarañado, complicado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tangled

[ˈtæŋg/əld] adj (string, wires, hair) → aggrovigliato/a (fig) (situation, negotiations) → ingarbugliato/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

tangle

(ˈtӕŋgl) noun

an untidy, confused or knotted state. The child's hair was in a tangle.

verb

to make or become tangled. Don't tangle my wool when I'm knitting.

ˈtangled adjective

in a tangle. tangled hair/branches; Her hair is always tangled.

tangle with

to become involved in a quarrel or struggle with (a person etc). I tangled with him over politics.

tangled

a. enredado-a; confundido-a.

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The track she had made when drifting while her heart stood still within her iron ribs looked like a tangled thread on the white paper of the chart.

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THE cruiser Vanator careened through the tempest That she had not been dashed to the ground, or twisted by the force of the elements into tangled wreckage, was due entirely to the caprice of Nature.

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Having handled the net, he threw it into the river, but became tangled in the meshes and drowned.

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He stepped over to the nearest tree--an old, old one with gray lichen all over its bark, but upholding a curtain of tangled sprays and branches.

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Then there was a desolate space covered with a white sand, and then another expanse of tangled bushes.

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The gaunt, careworn features and dusty figures were made plain by this quaint light at the dawning, but it dressed the skin of the men in corpselike hues and made the tangled limbs appear pulseless and dead.

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"Clear that raffle," I answered, pointing to the tangled wreckage overside.

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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.

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The tops of the high mountains tremble and the tangled wood echoes awesomely with the outcry of beasts: earthquakes and the sea also where fishes shoal.

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Scenting-dew or starlight pale, Choose no tangled tree-cat trail.

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With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul.

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He deployed his men into a skirmish line from the point where Esmeralda had been found, and in this extended formation they pushed their way, sweating and panting, through the tangled vines and creepers.