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Synonyms for tangle

tangle with someone

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  • come into conflict with
  • come up against
  • cross swords with
  • dispute with
  • contend with
  • contest with
  • lock horns with
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for tangle

to twist together so that separation is difficult

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to make complex, intricate, or perplexing

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to gain control of or an advantage over by or as if by trapping

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something that is intricately and often bewilderingly complex

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Synonyms for tangle

a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven

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something jumbled or confused

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force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

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tangle or complicate

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disarrange or rumple

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twist together or entwine into a confusing mass

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He hacked out with a wedge, then flew his approach over the green into more tangly grass.
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He could shift his ball just three feet into the tangly stuff, he took four shots to get on the green and another three to get the ball into the hole.
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With practically no run on the fairways and no easy escape from the wet, tangly rough, scoring was always going to be high for those who strayed from the straight and narrow.
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Since then there have been several would-be proper tough and tangly off-roaders that have burst into tears at the sight of a moist lawn.
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If you don't check beneath hedges and in tangly parts of the garden before you strim, you risk killing or injuring a hedgehog.
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He had missed the green by not very much and was faced with a chip out of the tangly stuff.
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A businesslike short haircut replaces the tangly, straggly locks of recent memory.
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But there are some spots of really long, tangly grass on the Old Course which are sure to severely inconvenience wayward players.
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Having over-clubbed, he was perhaps 30 yards beyond the pin with his second, and in the tangly stuff behind the green.
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They all braid their hair, hoping to avoid any tangly beaver-tail action.
Road trip: Fastandfurious: life with an all-girl biker gang; Move over Hell's Angels, the Devil Dolls are in town and ready to kick ass. Sue Carpenter joined San Francisco's toughest female biker gang on the road - but could she handle the pace?
Nobody beat par in 1995 but Pavin, by keeping out of the tangly high fescue grass, managed to equal it, and Floyd was the only one to defeat it (by a shot).
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