All 3 Uses of
entangled
in
1984 by Orwell
- It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests.†
p. 4..9 (definition 2)
- Talking to him was largely a matter of getting him away from such subjects and entangling him, if possible, in the technicalities of Newspeak, on which he was authoritative and interesting.
p. 49..6 (definition 1) *entangling = involving
- 'I've got the book,' he said as they disentangled themselves.
p. 200..5 (definition 2) *disentangled = separatedstandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disentangled reverses the meaning of entangled. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
Definitions:
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(1) (entangled as in: entangled in local politics) deeply involve; or intermix with complications or difficulties
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(2) (entangled as in: entangled in the branches) caught in
or:
twisted together into a confusing mass