English-Thai Dictionary
entangle
VT ทำให้ พัวพัน ใน ปัญหา complicate perplex tam-hai-pua-pan-nai-pan-ha
entangle in
PHRV พัวพัน หลง เข้าไป ติด enmesh in entangle with pua-pan
entangle with
PHRV พัน กัน ยุ่ง (ปกติ ใช้ รูป passive voice หลง เข้าไป ติด enmesh in entangle in pan-kan-yung
entanglement
N การ ทำให้ พัวพัน กัน สิ่ง พัวพัน ความ ซับซ้อน complication complex
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ENTANGLE
v.t.[from tangle. ] To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make confused or disordered; as, thread, yarn or ropes may be entangled; to entangle the hair. 1. To involve in any thing complicated, and from which it is difficult to extricate one's self; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.
2. To lose in numerous or complicated involutions, as in a labyrinth.
3. To involve in difficulties; to perplex; to embarrass; as, to entangle a nation in alliances.
4. To puzzle; to bewilder; as, to entangle the understanding.
5. To insnare by captious questions; to catch; to perplex; to involve in contradictions.
The Pharisees took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. Matthew 22:15.
6. To perplex or distract, as with cares.
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life. 2 Timothy 2:4.
7. To multiply intricacies and difficulties.
ENTANGLED
pp. or a.Twisted together; interwoven in a confused manner; intricate; perplexed; involved; embarrassed; insnared.
ENTANGLEMENT
n.Involution; a confused or disordered state; intricacy; perplexity.
ENTANGLER
n.One who entangles.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
ENTANGLE
En *tan "gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entangled; p. pr. & vb. n.Entangling. ]
1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. "Entangling alliances." Washington. The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings. Locke. Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain. Froude.
ENTANGLEMENT
ENTANGLEMENT En *tan "gle *ment, n.
Defn: State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
ENTANGLER
ENTANGLER En *tan "gler, n.
Defn: One that entangles.
New American Oxford Dictionary
entangle
en tan gle |enˈtaNGgəl ɪnˈtæŋɡəl | ▶verb [ with obj. ] (usu. be entangled ) cause to become twisted together with or caught in: fish attempt to swim through the mesh and become entangled. • involve (someone ) in difficulties or complicated circumstances from which it is difficult to escape: the case of murder in which she had found herself so painfully entangled.
entanglement
en tan gle ment |enˈtaNGgəlmənt ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt | ▶noun the action or fact of entangling or being entangled: many dolphins die from entanglement in fishing nets. • a complicated or compromising relationship or situation: romantic entanglements. • an extensive barrier, typically made of interlaced barbed wire and stakes, erected to impede enemy soldiers or vehicles: the attackers were caught up on wire entanglements.
Oxford Dictionary
entangle
en |tan ¦gle |ɪnˈtaŋg (ə )l, ɛn- | ▶verb [ with obj. ] cause to become twisted together with or caught in: fish attempt to swim through the mesh and become entangled. • involve (someone ) in difficulties or complicated circumstances from which it is difficult to escape: they were suspicious of becoming entangled in a civil war.
entanglement
en |tangle |ment |ɪnˈtaŋg (ə )lm (ə )nt, ɛn- | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the action or fact of entangling or being entangled: many dolphins die from entanglement in fishing nets. • [ count noun ] a complicated or compromising relationship or situation: romantic entanglements. • [ count noun ] an extensive barrier, typically made of barbed wire and stakes, erected to impede enemy soldiers or vehicles.
American Oxford Thesaurus
entangle
entangle verb 1 their parachutes became entangled: twist, intertwine, entwine, tangle, ravel, snarl, knot, coil, mat. 2 the fish are easily entangled in fine nets: catch, capture, trap, snare, ensnare, entrap, enmesh. 3 he was entangled in a lawsuit: involve, implicate, embroil, mix up, catch up, bog down, mire.
entanglement
entanglement noun 1 their entanglement in the war: involvement, embroilment. 2 romantic entanglements: affair, relationship, love affair, romance, amour, fling, dalliance, liaison, involvement, intrigue; complication.
Oxford Thesaurus
entangle
entangle verb 1 all four bodies were entangled in a heap: intertwine, entwine, tangle, intertwist, twist, ravel, snarl, knot, coil, mat, jumble, muddle. ANTONYMS disentangle. 2 the thread entangles the insect and brings it down: catch, capture, trap, snare, ensnare, entrap, enmesh, ensnarl. ANTONYMS disentangle; release. 3 he felt no call to entangle himself in the political questions of his day: involve, implicate, embroil, mix up, catch up, bog down, mire. ANTONYMS steer clear of.
entanglement
entanglement noun 1 he would not contemplate foreign entanglements whose outcome was unpredictable: involvement, complication, mix-up, adventure, undertaking. 2 his entanglements with the opposite sex: affair, relationship, love affair, romance, fling, flirtation, dalliance, liaison, involvement, attachment, affair of the heart, intrigue; relations; French affaire, affaire de /du cœur, amour; informal hanky-panky; Brit. informal carry-on.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
entangle
en tan gle /ɪntǽŋɡ (ə )l /動詞 ～s /-z /; ～d /-d /; -gling 他動詞 〖通例be ～d 〗1 【ロープ ネットなどに 】からまる «in , among , with » ▸ The kite has become entangled in a tree .その凧 （たこ ）は木にからまってしまった 2 【問題 困難などに 】巻き込まれる «in » ; «…と » かかわり合いになる «with » ▸ be entangled in a case of murder 殺人事件に巻き込まれる
entangled
en t á n gled 形容詞 1 【困難 問題などに 】かかわって «in , with » .2 «…に » からまって «in , with » .
entanglement
en t á n gle ment 名詞 C U 1 ｟否定的に ｠ «…との » (複雑な )性的関係, 不倫関係 «with » .2 «…との » (逃れるのが )難しい状況, 困った関係, かかわり合い «in , with » .3 〖しばしば ～s 〗 «…に » からみつく物 [こと ] «in » .4 〖しばしば ～s 〗有刺鉄線の塀, 鉄条網 .
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