English-Spanish translations for tangle

• enmarañar
• enmarañarse
• maraña
  Por último, deberíamos referirnos a la maraña de la comitología. Finally, we should refer to the Byzantine tangle of comitology.
  Las soluciones razonables acaban quedando atrapadas siempre en la maraña institucional. Sensible solutions keep getting tangled up in the institutional undergrowth.
  Pero actualmente nos encontramos frente a una maraña de programas y a un verdadero apilamiento de medidas sin coherencia. But today we are facing a tangled web of programmes and a mountain of incoherent measures.

Definition of tangle

• to become mixed together or intertwined
• to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
• to mix together or intertwine
• A tangled twisted mass
• An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
• A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns
• Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of ''Laminaria''
• An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea

Examples

• Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind
• Dont tangle with someone three times your size
• He tangled with the law
• I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere

Related words

• rectangle
• entangle
• untangle
• entanglement
• detangle
• tangled
• disentangle
• rectangles
• entangled