Don't pull, or you'll tangle the threads.
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Tangle
//ˈtæŋ.ɡl̩//
Synonyms for "tangle" (224 found)
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165 translations across 31 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- تْخبّل verb (to become mixed together or intertwined)
- خبّل verb (to mix together or intertwine)
Bikol Central
1 entries- gubot verb (to become mixed together or intertwined)
Bulgarian
4 entries- бърканица noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
- неразбория noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
- нещо объркано noun (tangled twisted mass)
- схватка noun (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
Czech
4 entries- spleť noun (tangled twisted mass)
- spleť noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
- změť noun (tangled twisted mass)
- změť noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
Dutch
4 entries- clinch noun (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
- warboel noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
- wirwar noun (tangled twisted mass)
- verstrikken verb (to catch and hold)
Esperanto
1 entries- konfuzi verb (to mix together or intertwine)
Faroese
1 entries- fløkja noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
Finnish
4 entries- riita noun (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
- sotku noun (tangled twisted mass)
- sotku noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
- tappelu noun (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
French
4 entries- imbroglio noun (tangled twisted mass)
- compliquer verb (to mix together or intertwine)
- emmêler verb (to mix together or intertwine)
- enchevêtrer verb (to mix together or intertwine)
Galician
4 entries- embeleñar verb (to mix together or intertwine)
- enlear verb (to mix together or intertwine)
- enmarañar verb (to mix together or intertwine)
- ensarillar verb (to mix together or intertwine)
German
4 entries- Gewirr noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
- Rangelei noun (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
- Wirrwarr noun (tangled twisted mass)
- sich anlegen mit jmdn. verb (to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
Greek
3 entries- εμπλέκω verb (to become mixed together or intertwined)
- μπλέκω verb (to be forced into some kind of situation)
- πλέκω verb (to mix together or intertwine)
Hungarian
3 entries- csetepaté noun (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
- gubanc noun (tangled twisted mass)
- zűrzavar noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
Icelandic
3 entries- flækja noun (tangled twisted mass)
- flækja noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
- karp noun (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
Irish
3 entries- aighneas noun (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
- gréasán noun (tangled twisted mass)
- tranglam noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
Italian
1 entries- intrecciare verb (to mix together or intertwine)
Japanese
3 entries- 縺れ noun (tangled twisted mass)
- 縺れ noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
- 縺れる verb (to become mixed together or intertwined)
Khmer
3 entries- ចំពាក់ verb (to become mixed together or intertwined)
- ធ្វើឲ្យប្រទាក់ចំពាក់គ្នា verb (to mix together or intertwine)
- ប្រទាក់ verb (to become mixed together or intertwined)
Macedonian
4 entries- брка́ница noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
- брко́тија noun (tangled twisted mass)
- брко́тница noun (tangled twisted mass)
- збр́ка noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
Malay
1 entries- kusut verb (to become mixed together or intertwined)
Mirandese
1 entries- ambaraçar verb (to become mixed together or intertwined)
Māori
1 entries- pōkīkī noun (tangled twisted mass)
Polish
4 entries- konflikt noun (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
- plątanina noun (tangled twisted mass)
- spór noun (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
- zamęt noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
Portuguese
4 entries- emaranhado noun (tangled twisted mass)
- emaranhado noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
- capturar verb (to catch and hold)
- emaranhar verb (to mix together or intertwine)
Russian
4 entries- беспоря́док noun (tangled twisted mass)
- клубо́к noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
- неразбери́ха noun (tangled twisted mass)
- пу́таница noun (tangled twisted mass)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- langadar noun (large type of seaweed)
Sicilian
4 entries- alligari verb (to mix together or intertwine)
- ammiscari verb (to be forced into some kind of situation)
- cummàttiri verb (to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
- mpacciarisilla verb (to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
Spanish
3 entries- maraña noun (tangled twisted mass)
- enmarañar verb (to mix together or intertwine)
- enmarañarse verb (to become mixed together or intertwined)
Swedish
4 entries- bråk noun (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
- gräl noun (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight)
- härva noun (tangled twisted mass)
- härva noun (complicated or confused state or condition)
Ukrainian
4 entries- заплу́тати verb (to mix together or intertwine)
- заплу́татися verb (to become mixed together or intertwined)
- заплу́тувати verb (to mix together or intertwine)
- заплу́туватися verb (to become mixed together or intertwined)
Walloon
4 entries- ecomeler verb (to mix together or intertwine)
- ecramyî verb (to mix together or intertwine)
- emacraler verb (to mix together or intertwine)
- s' ecomeler verb (to become mixed together or intertwined)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
"I have now in my hands," my companion said, confidently, "all the threads which have formed such a tangle. There are, of course details to be filled in, but I am as certain of all the main facts."
Source: tatoeba (6310147)
We had left the fertile country behind and beneath us. We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new turned by the plough and the broad tangle of the woodlands.
Source: tatoeba (6606611)
Many mangrove forests can be recognized by their dense tangle of prop roots that make the trees appear to be standing on stilts above the water.
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