Betangle

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.

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.