inextricable

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The wagon was inextricable, the cattle done up, the savages lazy, so they stayed for several hours.

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  1. adjective So intricate or entangled as to make escape impossible: an inextricable maze; an inextricable web of deceit.
  2. adjective Difficult or impossible to disentangle or untie: an inextricable tangle of threads.
  3. adjective Too involved or complicated to solve: an inextricable problem.
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  • The dates of the various events described in the fifth and sixth books of the Confessions are inextricable, and the order is evidently inverted more than once. —  Rousseau (Volume 1 of 2)
  • So mad did the affair grow;-- and is so madly recorded in those inextricable, dateless, chaotic Books. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • I also agree that politics are inextricable, to a certain extent, from good science fiction. —  AnalogSFF,May2006
  • What you may not realize is that, in Japan, professional wrestling and MMA are inextricable. —  Dick Hyacinth's One-stop Hyphen Shop
  • DAP and PAS are caught in a seemingly inextricable tangle. —  Planet Malaysia
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  1. = French inextricable = Spanish inextricable = Portuguese inextricavel = Italian inestricabile, inestrigabile, from Latin inextricabilis, that cannot be disengaged or disentangled, from in- privative + extricabilis, that can be disengaged: see extricable.
 

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