ENSNARLING Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

ensnarling

verb

present participle of ensnarl

as in trapping

to catch or hold as if in a net for two years the couple was ensnarled in the red tape of an international adoption

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The draft management plan, on which the department seeks comment, proposes lifting the moratorium on hunting or trapping bobcats.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Access holders say the fence has created significant problems, including trapping wildlife and diverting water from community irrigation ditches.

— Anna Alejo, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

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In 1984 the late mathematician Vaughan Jones introduced a new way to assign polynomials to knots, thereby tangling the two fields together.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
There are also the journalists, the athletes, and the kids who spend sunny days doing contact improv, which was invented at Oberlin, tangling their limbs in the grass outside the library.

— Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

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