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Definition of tangling : of Tangle

Synonyms:

confusing, mixing up, perplexing, involving, confounding

entangling, complicating, fouling, miring, hindering, choking, braking, burdening, constipating, blocking, fettering, staying, plugging, inhibiting, bottlenecking, baffling, snarling, crimping, encumbering, restraining, restricting, resisting, stopping, clogging, barring, damming, obstructing, bunging, detaining, handicapping, impeding, checking, snagging, frustrating, deterring, jamming, constraining, thwarting, catching, opposing, delaying, burdensome, dragging, paralyzing, bottleneck, curbing, hamstringing, interrupting, congesting, crippling, hampering, countering, entrapping, impairing, cramping

Usage examples:

• Then I'll have to depend upon tangling up that Mr. Marcy on the stand. - "Counsel for the Defense", Leroy Scott.
• And there were those tangling threads of gold. - "The Port of Adventure", Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson.
• The side they were on, the short side of the turn, was becoming impassable with rough bowlders and tangling underbrush. - "Unexplored!", Allen Chaffee.