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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of intertangle.

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Examples

  • After twenty-three years, the Bhopal issue is so complex, its various strands -- legal, medical, social, human, environmental, political -- so intertangled that it would take a Ph.D. to unravel them.

    A Conversation with Indra Sinha: 2010

  • Our breasts, our mouths, our c-- s, our intertangled hair ...

    Ohio Is Talking... 2008

  • Nor was the war itself precisely a definite issue between pure good and pure evil, - such distinctions belong to the world of the idealistic reason of which our actual intricate existence in whose net opposites are very bafflingly fused together, is as yet at least no faithful reproduction, - but a very confused clash and catastrophe of the intertangled powers of the past, present and future.

    The human spirit has still to find itself, its idea and its greater orientation Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Nor was the war itself precisely a definite issue between pure good and pure evil, - such distinctions belong to the world of the idealistic reason of which our actual intricate existence in whose net opposites are very bafflingly fused together, is as yet at least no faithful reproduction, - but a very confused clash and catastrophe of the intertangled powers of the past, present and future.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Meanwhile three friends find themselves in a heap of trouble from being intertangled with the world of sex, drugs, and music.

    July 13th, 2008 douglascohen 2008

  • They were piled in a heap, bones and shredded dry flesh so intertangled there was no telling how many beasts there had been or why they had gathered together, in life or in death.

    Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999

  • Her life was bound tight to his; her family was his family; their finances were intertangled and their expectations lay together in the same quarters.

    The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

  • The two men were intertangled and down among the furniture, and then Omne had locked an arm around Kirk and was scuttling crabwise to one side, dragging the Human in front of him toward the cover of a big couch.

    The Price of the Phoenix Marshak, Sondra 1977

  • However, Nature, that at first sight appears so lovely, is on consideration almost always incomplete; moreover, there is no painting intertangled foliage without losing half its beauties.

    The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art Cicely Margaret Powell [Editor] Binyon

  • "Confluentia," whose threads of liquidity are eruditely, yet romantically, intertangled to represent the confluence of the Rhine and the Moselle; and "The Headless Horseman," a masterpiece of burlesque weirdness, representing the wild pursuit of Ichabod Crane and the final hurling of the awful head, -- a pumpkin, some say.

    Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

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