Usually means: Complex knot of threads, confusion.
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  1. tangle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tangle: Merriam-Webster
  3. tangle, tangle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tangle, tangle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tangle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tangle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tangle, tangle: Wordnik
  8. tangle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tangle: Wiktionary
  10. tangle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tangle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tangle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tangle: Dictionary.com
  14. tangle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tangle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tangle (TV series), Tangle (album), Tangle (knot theory), Tangle (mathematics), Tangle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tangle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tangle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tangle: Rhymezone
  20. tangle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tangle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tangle: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tangle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tangle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. tangle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. tangle: Legal dictionary

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  1. tangle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tangle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Tangle: MedFriendly Glossary
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  4. tangle: Medical dictionary

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  1. tangle: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tangle: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. tangle: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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  1. tangle, tangle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tangle, tangle: Urban Dictionary

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See tangled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To mix together or intertwine.
verb:  (intransitive) To become mixed together or intertwined.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
verb:  (transitive) To catch and hold.
noun:  A tangled twisted mass.
noun:  A complicated or confused state or condition.
noun:  An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
noun:  (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
noun:  (medicine) A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
noun:  A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
noun:  Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
noun:  (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
noun:  (Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
noun:  A barangay of Mexico, Pampanga, Philippines.

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