entanglement
Collocations
4ADJ.
cyclic, hopeless, illegal, inter-universal, red, soviet, wild
VERB + ENTANGLEMENT
document, expediting, matters, see, view
ENTANGLEMENT + NOUN
gillnets, politics, world
PREP.
in, with, without
Definitions
noun
The act of entangling.
The most notorious of these was his entanglement of the Soviet Union in the Cuban missile crisis, against the advice of the military, who held him responsible for their embarrassing inability to frighten the USA because he had failed[…]
The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
The Letters' account of Dolghurucki's hopeless entanglement in the politics of the imperial accession resonated with her readers, and Vigor's story becomes a minor set piece of Russian histories in the eighteenth century.
The state or condition of being entangled; intricate and confused involution.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:entanglement.
That which entangles; an involvement, a complication; an intricacy; a perplexity.
That which entangles; an involvement, a complication; an intricacy; a perplexity.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6The most notorious of these was his entanglement of the Soviet Union in the Cuban missile crisis, against the advice of the military, who held him responsible for their embarrassing inability to frigh
WiktionaryThe Letters' account of Dolghurucki's hopeless entanglement in the politics of the imperial accession resonated with her readers, and Vigor's story becomes a minor set piece of Russian histories in th
WiktionaryFor quotations using this term, see Citations:entanglement.
WiktionaryEvery government office seems to have problems in expediting matters without entanglement in its red tape system.
Tatoeba · #37532Entanglement with the world constitutes an observation.
Tatoeba · #10521805The Japanese have a more comprehensive view of the entanglement of the past, the present, and the future than do Westerners.
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