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# tangled

adjective; verb (past of tangle: tangle, tangles, tangled, tangling)

«tangled» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Tangled means twisted together in a messy way that is hard to undo, like string, hair or wires. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tangled/#m1)
2. Tangled can mean complicated and confusing, like a tangled story. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tangled/#m2)
3. To get tangled up in something means to get caught in it or involved in it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tangled/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life tangled hair needs brushing and tangled headphones need untangling; in nature and safety lessons animals can get tangled in plastic or fishing line. Phrases: «tangled up», «get tangled», «a tangled mess».

### Examples

- My headphones are all tangled. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tangled/#x1)
- She brushed her tangled hair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tangled/#x2)
- The kite string got tangled in the tree. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tangled/#x3)
- Turtles can get tangled in fishing nets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tangled/#x4)
- The story was a tangled web of lies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tangled/#x5)
- The dog got tangled up in its lead. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tangled/#x6)
- Untangle the wool before you knit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tangled/#x7)
- He fell into some tangled wood where he was held fast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tangled/#x8)

### Note

Regular. Opposite verb: untangle. Saying: «Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive» — lies get more and more complicated.

## In Jewish tradition

Nahum calls the enemy like tangled thorns that will be burned.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads this as a picture of Nineveh's fall.

### Examples

- For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to their drink, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. (Prophets NAM.1.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tangled/#x1)

### Note

Regular. Opposite verb: untangle. Saying: «Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive» — lies get more and more complicated.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tangled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tangled/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tangled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tangled.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «tangled» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tangled/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tangled» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/tangled.html) on Mova free.