betangle

present singular third person betangles · participle present betangling · participle past betangled · past betangled

1. ambitransitiveTo tangle around or about, entwine, encumber.

   It thought it had so finessed the problem of New Caledonia that the independence conflict there would not betangle next year's parliamentary election in France.

   1985, The Economist, volume 296, page 34

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   But it is plain to all of us, that that woman is betangling you more and more every day; she has got you in her tiles; she's a-weaning you one by one from all your good old friends, and won't allow you even a single hour to spend amongst us.

   1851, John Poole, Hablot Knight Browne, The Comic Miscellany, page 222