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• n  a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
  they carved their way through the tangle of vines
• n  something jumbled or confused
  a tangle of government regulations
• v  force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
• v  tangle or complicate
• v  disarrange or rumple; dishevel
• v  twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
  The child entangled the cord

• Falwell's bellicose entry into the South Africa tangle produced an unholy uproar.
• See Also Tech PTI Archive: By WILSON ROTHMAN One of the problems of the modern home theater one I have discussed recently is the ever-growing tangle of wires.
• The old, dark, brick coal-, gas- and oil-burning tangle of structures looks like a giant outdoor furnace.

• snarl
• maze
• embroil
• sweep
• sweep up
• drag
• drag in
• ravel
• knot
• tousle
• dishevel
• entangle
• mat

• unravel
• unknot
• disentangle
• unsnarl

News & Articles

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• What the Ice Is Telling Us
  In May 2007, roughly a year after the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Will Steger was leading a 1,200-mile ice survey expedition across Baffin Island, in northern Canada, when he and his team encountered a tangle of snowmobile tracks in the snow.
  June 13, 2013 - Takepart.com via Yahoo! News
• My Best Day: Film Review
  Erin Greenwell finds a tangle of family dysfunction in small-town Pennsylvania. read more
  June 12, 2013 - The Hollywood Reporter
• Football. Burnett, Shologan to Face Off in CFL Opening Weekend
  Two former UCF Knights will tangle this Friday when the CFL kicks off its 2013 campaign as Edmonton Eskimos defensive back and return specialist Joe Burnett hosts defensive lineman Keith Shologan's Saskatchewan Roughriders at 9 p.m.
  June 12, 2013 - UCF Golden Knights

Quotes

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• Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney Morning Herald
  I say this about a friend, John Howard. That was an error,Mr Turnbull said. "Clearly, we should have said sorry then. John got himself into a bit of semantic tangle there."
• Theodore Roosevelt in American Daily
  In 1908 President Teddy Roosevelt said, "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
• Chris Petersen in ESPN
  We're not good with it,Petersen told the Idaho Statesman. "It always takes two to tangle. Those are things we preach about every day around here. We just need to keep our mouths closed : and let our play speak for itself. I'm sure [Blount]...