betangle
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From be- (“around, about”) + tangle.
Verb
[edit]betangle (third-person singular simple present betangles, present participle betangling, simple past and past participle betangled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To tangle around or about, entwine, encumber.
- 1851, John Poole, Hablot Knight Browne, The Comic Miscellany, page 222:
- 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.
- 1985, The Economist, volume 296, page 34:
- 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.