Meaning of ENTANGLEMENT
| Pronunciation: | | en'tanggulmunt
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| | Definition: | | [n] an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim |
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| | See Also: | | spider web, spider's web, trap | |
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| | Definition: | | Entanglement
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\En*tan"gle*ment\, n.
State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution;
that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
\En*tan"gle*ment\, n.
1. (Mil.) An extensive low obstacle formed of stakes, stumps,
or the like, connected by wires, ropes, or the like.
2. (Naut.) An obstruction of cables and spars across a river
or harbor entrance.
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| | Related Terms: | | abatis, absorption, adulterous affair, adultery, advanced work, affair, amour, association, balistraria, bamboozlement, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, befooling, bluffing, breastwork, bulwark, calculated deception, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, circumvention, cobweb, complexity, complexness, complication, conning, contact, contravallation, convolution, counterscarp, crabbedness, cuckoldry, curtain, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, dupery, earthwork, embarrassment, embroilment, enclosure, engagement, enmeshment, ensnarement, entrapment, escarp, escarpment, eternal triangle, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, fence, fieldwork, flimflam, flimflammery, flirtation, fond illusion, fooling, forbidden love, fortalice, fortification, glacis, hallucination, hanky-panky, hoodwinking, illicit love, illusion, implication, inclusion, infidelity, intricacy, intricateness, intrigue, involution, involvement, kidding, liaison, loophole, love affair, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, meshes, mirage, mound, outwitting, outwork, overreaching, palisade, parados, parapet, perplexity, phantasm, portcullis, postern gate, putting on, ramification, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, relation, romance, romantic tie, sally port, scarp, sconce, self-deception, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, stockade, subterfuge, subtlety, swindling, tanglement, technicality, tenaille, toils, triangle, trickiness, tricking, unfaithfulness, vallation, vallum, victimization, vision, web, willful misconception, wishful thinking, work |
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