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Something that is routinely undone and, therefore, never progresses. Refers to The Odyssey, in which Odysseus's wife Penelope weaves and unweaves Laertes's burial shroud each day, so as to avoid having to choose a suitor. (She is expected to choose a suitor after finishing the shroud.) Every day, I work on this manuscript, and every night, my boss tells me to redo most of it. It's becoming like Penelope's web.

To search for something the Internet. In the early days of AOL, I didn't know how to search the web. I thought you had to know the URL of the site you were looking for and type it in manually! Search engines allow you to search the web quickly and easily.

To create an intricate contrivance of misdirection, omission, or deception that ultimately serves to ensnare or entangle oneself or others. Rich had an affair with his secretary and spun a web of lies to hide it. He's divorced now, so how do you think it all worked out for him?

To browse the various content of the Internet. With the ubiquity of affordable smartphones and computers, everyone from seniors to preschoolers is able to surf the web these days. I just worry that he spends too much time surfing the web alone instead of hanging out with other kids his age.

A convoluted situation usually caused by some form of deception. The investigation revealed a tangled web of fraud among the members of the political party.

To create an intricate contrivance of misdirection, omission, or deception that ultimately serves to ensnare or entangle oneself or others. Rich had an affair with his secretary and wove a web of lies to hide it. He's divorced now, so how do you think it all worked out for him?

An intricate contrivance of misdirection, omission, or deception that ultimately serves to ensnare or entangle oneself or others. It turned out that she had been embezzling money for years, but the CEO's web of deceit finally caught up with her after federal investigators started poking around the company's accounts. You had a happy life with her, but you decided to throw it all away for a fling with some secretary. You spun a web of deceit to hide it all, but now you've been caught in it.

An intricate contrivance of misdirection, omission, or deceit that ultimately serves to ensnare or entangle oneself or others. It turned out that she had been embezzling money for years, but the CEO's web of lies finally caught up with her after federal investigators started poking around the company's accounts. You had a happy life with her, but you decided to throw it all away for a fling with some secretary. You spun a web of lies to hide it all, but now you've been caught in it.

A tangled web is a situation that is very confused and difficult to understand. This is only one of a series of troubling questions that are emerging from the tangled web of evidence connected to the case. It is sometimes difficult to cut through the tangled web of government information in order to work out the benefits you can claim.