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tangle

verbCommon GRE wordMore T words

to twist together into a confused or knotted mass

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Tangle in a sentence

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The kite strings tangled so badly that we spent an hour separating them.

Synonyms
entanglesnarlknotintertwine
Antonyms
untangleunraveldisentangle
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Tangle (verb) means to twist together into a confused or knotted mass
Here is tangle used in an example sentence: "The kite strings tangled so badly that we spent an hour separating them."
Common synonyms for tangle include entangle, snarl, knot, intertwine.
Antonyms of tangle include untangle, unravel, disentangle.
Tangle is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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