6 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
noun a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
noun something jumbled or confused
verb force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
originFrom Middle English tanglen, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Swedish taggla (“to disorder”), Old Norse þǫngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”), see Etymology 2 below.
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