🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Intricare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: in'tri.kare

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Entangle/ɪnˈtæŋɡl/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"I fili si sono intricati."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To cause to become twisted together with or caught in.

    "The fishing line became entangled in the weeds."
  2. 2

    To involve someone in difficulties or complicated circumstances.

    "She was entangled in a web of lies."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'entangle' originates from the Middle English term 'entanglen', which is derived from the prefix 'en-' meaning 'to cause to be in' and 'tangle', which comes from the Old Norse 'tangl', meaning 'to twist'. Over time, its meaning evolved to encompass both physical and metaphorical forms of involvement or complication.

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