I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tangle of curls (= curls that are not neatly combed )
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a boy with a tangle of brown curls
mangled/tangled/twisted wreckage
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Recovery teams continue to clear the tangled wreckage.
tangled web
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a tangled web of relationships
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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You're tangled up in something which will probably end in humiliation.
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I think they just got their feet tangled up .
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Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution.
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I thought our feet got tangled up .
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But it tangles up all the time!
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It warns policymakers not to get tangled up with averages but to focus instead on increments.
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It too was festooned in ribbon, which managed to get tangled up with the lead.
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The purest wilderness, everything tangled up with everything else.
■ NOUN
hair
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One arm went round his neck, her fingers tangling in the silky hair at his nape.
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Her long skirt dragged on the ground and her tangled hair fell around Janir as she hunched over him.
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She had tangled brown hair , a small and lively face, a dress of dark red material that clung to her.
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The darkness in the corners grew out into the room and began to tangle in her hair .
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His head was snapped upwards as though long fingers had tangled themselves in his hair and pulled.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Seikaly and Kitchner tangled for several minutes before the referees separated them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Birds can be injured by getting tangled in it, she says, or by swallowing hooks.
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But it tangles up all the time!
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One arm went round his neck, her fingers tangling in the silky hair at his nape.
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The future of machines lies in the tangled weeds underfoot.
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Viscosity, or resistance to flow, is a property of fluids containing long molecular chains that tangle and intertwine.
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You don't want to tangle with rutting stags, however.
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Zitney lay beside her, his firm, lean shoulder in the air, the sheet tangled negligently around his bronzed arm.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
legal
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Out of this fraught legal and financial tangle the bureau worker must work with the client to create order and stability.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It takes forever to comb the tangles out of my hair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He collided with the Guardsmen, and they went down in a tangle .
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In a functional sense, spillover was founded on the belief that contemporary economies were based upon a tangle of interrelated sectors.
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Indeed, as I practice the technique, my nervousness and tongue tangles diminish.
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Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs, flailing hooves and broken lances.
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Out of this fraught legal and financial tangle the bureau worker must work with the client to create order and stability.
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The tangle could last minutes or it could last hours.
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They can also be dangerous to small fish and fry, which might get stuck in the tangle of filaments and suffocate.