Both Uses of
entangled
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- After consulting a tree to ascertain from its lichen which way was south, and taking no lip from the subordinates who ventured to correct him, Colonel Maycomb set out on a purposeful journey to rout the enemy and entangled his troops so far northwest in the forest primeval that they were eventually rescued by settlers moving inland.
p. 346..5entangled = caught
- He was up like lightning and pulling me with him but, though my head and shoulders were free, I was so entangled we didn't get very far.
p. 351..4 *entangled = caught (in the chicken wire)
Definition:
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(entangled as in: entangled in the branches) caught in
or:
twisted together into a confusing mass