entangling

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Five years later, Thomas Jefferson advised us to pursue '[p] eace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none.'

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  1. An entanglement or complication. [Rare.] But miracles, like the hero's sword, divided these entanglings at a stroke, and at once made their way through them. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, II. viii.
  2. Serving to entangle, involve, or embarrass. Honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. Jefferson, Inaugural Address.

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  • Here, where creepers were less entangling, the going was easier. —  012 - The Man Who Shook The Earth
  • Still more entangling were the difficulties in respect of Egypt, over which the Government was so hopelessly divided that no coherent policy could be pursued. —  The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2
  • In effect you are co-mingling / entangling your funds. —  California Literary Review
  • In a separate development, a Yahoo executive said Thursday that red tape and fragmentation are entangling advertising buyers and holding back the growth of Internet advertising. —  Home:blogs
  • There are all sorts of subplots, including an FBI agent attempting to prove the Dollhouse really does exist, hints of several entangling backstories among the executives and workers at the Dollhouse, as well as a mysteriously odd scene at the end of the hour that sets up an entirely different subplot. —  AllYourTV.com: Your Complete Guide To All Things TV
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  1. Verbal noun of entangle, v.
  2. Ppr. of entangle, v.
 

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