The Only Use of
entangled
in
The Great Gatsby
- I wanted to get out and walk southward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair.
p. 35.8entangled = caught in
Definitions:
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(1)
(entangled as in: entangled in the branches) caught in
or:
twisted together into a confusing mass -
(2)
(entangled as in: entangled in local politics) deeply involve; or intermix with complications or difficulties
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, entangle can refer in quantum physics to a linkage between separated particles.