Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Entanglement.

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  • noun embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled

Etymologies

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From embrangle + -ment.

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Examples

  • Compared with other items in the Cave œuvre — notably his 1989 novel And the Ass Saw the Angel, with its “embranglement of words” — The Proposition relies more on image than language.

    May 2006 2006

  • Compared with other items in the Cave œuvre — notably his 1989 novel And the Ass Saw the Angel, with its “embranglement of words” — The Proposition relies more on image than language.

    Greasy Hairball Novels 2006

  • Even in repose he shows a history thick with embranglement, dust-stomping men turning figures in the steep sun.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Even in repose he shows a history thick with embranglement, dust-stomping men turning figures in the steep sun.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Even in repose he shows a history thick with embranglement, dust-stomping men turning figures in the steep sun.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The Mary Todd embranglement is simply the fact that as a result of this situation where Lincoln wanted out of their relationship and Mary resisted, and Lincoln became emotionally -- began to sink into kind of a despondency.

    Booknotes 10th Anniversary 1999

  • The embranglement is this entanglement that Lincoln got himself into with Mary Todd and he never really could get himself out of.

    Booknotes 10th Anniversary 1999

  • LAMB: What's the Mary Todd and -- is it embranglement?

    Booknotes 10th Anniversary 1999

  • Farewell embranglement, recrement, fusby and numerous others.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Lindesay Irvine 2008

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  • "Even in repose he shows a history thick with embranglement, dust-stomping men turning figures in the steep sun." -- Don DeLillo, Underworld

    January 5, 2007