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entanglement
/ɛnˈtæŋɡəlmənt/
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What does entanglement mean?
noun
- The act of entangling.
- The condition of being deeply involved and intricated (with politics, a group, another person, etc.)
- The condition, or an instance, of being romantically or sexually involved with another person; an affair.
More meanings (3)
noun
- An obstruction placed in front or on the flank of a fortification, to impede an enemy's approach.
- An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbour entrance.
- Ellipsis of quantum entanglement.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɛnˈtæŋɡəlmənt/
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It will be well not to be too much disturbed by the thought of either isolation or entanglement of pacifists and militarists.
The deeper she sank into the entanglement, the more she imagined that the thing hung upon the few remaining things she had not done.
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His delicate feeling shrank from dwelling even in his thought on the fact that he had always urged Lydgate to avoid any personal entanglement with Bulstrode.
If a Gnat rush into the perfidious entanglement, he is caught at once; and the more he struggles the more firmly is he bound.
An inner cloud of dust rose around the prostrate figures amid the general one of the room, in which a twitching entanglement of arms and legs was discernible.