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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Entanglement \En*tan"gle*ment\, n.
     1. State of being entangled; intricate and confused
        involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Mil.) An extensive low obstacle formed of stakes, stumps,
        or the like, connected by wires, ropes, or the like.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     3. (Naut.) An obstruction of cables and spars across a river
        or harbor entrance.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Entanglement \En*tan"gle*ment\, n.
     1. (Mil.) An extensive low obstacle formed of stakes, stumps,
        or the like, connected by wires, ropes, or the like.
  
     2. (Naut.) An obstruction of cables and spars across a river
        or harbor entrance.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Entanglement \En*tan"gle*ment\, n.
     State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution;
     that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  entanglement
       n : an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
           [syn: web]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  entanglement
     n.
     The act of entangling.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  entanglement
     n.
     The act of entangling.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  entanglement
     n.
     The act of entangling.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  entanglement
     n.
     The act of entangling.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  entanglement
     Englanti n.
     sotkeutuminen

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Entanglement /ɛntˈaŋɡəlmənt/
  التشابك

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  entanglement /ɛntˈaŋɡəlmənt/ 
  zápletka

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  entanglement /ɛntˈaŋɡəlmənt/ 
  zádrhel

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  entanglement /ɛntˈaŋɡəlmənt/
  Verhau 
           Note: Sperre
     Synonym: barrier
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  entanglement /ɛntˈaŋɡəlmənt/
  Drahtverhau  [mil.]
     Synonyms: wire entanglement, wire enclosure
  
   see: wire entanglements, wire enclosures, entanglements
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  entanglement /ɛntˈaŋɡəlmənt/
  Sich-Verfangen , Verfangensein 
           Note: in etw.
        "Many dolphins die from entanglement in fishing nets."  - Viele Delphine sterben, weil sie sich in Fischernetzen verfangen.
           Note: in sth.

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  entanglement /ɛntˈaŋɡəlmənt/
  Verwicklung , Wirrung  [geh.] , Wirrsal  [poet.]  [soc.]
        "The plot involves romantic entanglements."  - Die Handlung enthält romantische Verwicklungen.
   see: entanglements
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  entanglement /ɛntˈaŋɡəlmənt/
  wirres Knäuel , wirres Bündel , Gewirr , Filz  [ugs.]
     Synonyms: tangle, snarl
  

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  entanglement //ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt// 
  1. sotku
  that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity
  2. kietoutuminen, sotkeutuminen
  the state of being entangled

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  entanglement /ɛntˈaŋɡəlmənt/ 
  1. उलझन
        "He couldn't get himself out of the entanglement of bad company."

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  entanglement /ɛntˈaŋɡəlmənt/
  1. nehéz ügy
  2. belekeveredés
  3. elakadás
  4. összekuszálás
  5. torlódás
  6. drótakadály
  7. bonyolult helyzet
  8. bonyolult ügy
  9. belegabalyítás
  10. összekuszálódás
  11. belegabalyodás
  12. nehéz helyzet

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  entanglement //ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt// 
  縺れ
  the state of being entangled

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  entanglement /ɪnˈtæŋgləmənt/ 
    poplątanie

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ɛnˈtæŋɡəɫmənt/, /ɪnˈtæŋɡəɫmənt/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  146 Moby Thesaurus words for "entanglement":
     abatis, absorption, adulterous affair, adultery, advanced work,
     affair, amour, association, balistraria, bamboozlement, bank,
     banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier,
     bartizan, bastion, battlement, befooling, bluffing, breastwork,
     bulwark, calculated deception, casemate, cheval-de-frise,
     circumvallation, circumvention, cobweb, complexity, complexness,
     complication, conning, contact, contravallation, convolution,
     counterscarp, crabbedness, cuckoldry, curtain, deceiving,
     deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness,
     demibastion, dike, drawbridge, dupery, earthwork, embarrassment,
     embroilment, enclosure, engagement, enmeshment, ensnarement,
     entrapment, escarp, escarpment, eternal triangle, fallaciousness,
     fallacy, falseness, fence, fieldwork, flimflam, flimflammery,
     flirtation, fond illusion, fooling, forbidden love, fortalice,
     fortification, glacis, hallucination, hanky-panky, hoodwinking,
     illicit love, illusion, implication, inclusion, infidelity,
     intricacy, intricateness, intrigue, involution, involvement,
     kidding, liaison, loophole, love affair, lunette, machicolation,
     mantelet, merlon, meshes, mirage, mound, outwitting, outwork,
     overreaching, palisade, parados, parapet, perplexity, phantasm,
     portcullis, postern gate, putting on, ramification, rampart,
     ravelin, redan, redoubt, relation, romance, romantic tie,
     sally port, scarp, sconce, self-deception, snow job,
     song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, stockade, subterfuge, subtlety,
     swindling, tanglement, technicality, tenaille, toils, triangle,
     trickiness, tricking, unfaithfulness, vallation, vallum,
     victimization, vision, web, willful misconception,
     wishful thinking, work
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n.纠缠,牵累

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 纠缠,卷入,缠绕物

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