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# entangled

«entangled» in Mova's school dictionary: **Caught and twisted up in string, rope, nets, hair or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (entangled); also past tense and past participle of entangle

### meaning for a pupil

1) Caught and twisted up in string, rope, nets, hair or plants so it cannot move freely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entangled/#m1)

2) Twisted together in a messy knot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entangled/#m2)

3) Mixed up in a difficult situation, problem or relationship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entangled/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Common in nature and safety texts («a seal entangled in netting»), in everyday life («entangled hair», «entangled wires») and in stories where characters are «entangled in a web of lies». It tells the reader that something is stuck or hard to get out of.

### examples

- The bird was entangled in fishing line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entangled/#x1)
- My hair got entangled in the zip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entangled/#x2)
- The rescuers freed the entangled whale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entangled/#x3)
- The roots were entangled under the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entangled/#x4)
- She got entangled in a quarrel between her friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entangled/#x5)
- His shoelaces were entangled in the bike chain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entangled/#x6)
- The kittens rolled about, entangled in the wool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entangled/#x7)
- This one had been caught by hounds when his tail had become entangled in the hedge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entangled/#x8)

### note

Past form of entangle: entangled. Used with «in»: entangled in. In physics, «entangled» also names a special link between tiny particles — that is far beyond primary school.

### In the corpora

- [And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.387/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «entangled» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entangled/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.