0 present participle of enmesh --
1 to catch or involve someone in something unpleasant or dangerous from which it is difficult to escape: --
An impression of spontaneous improvisation is achieved by the overlapping and enmeshing of phrases and movements, which allows the avoidance of regular structures.
The original memorial started off small but his art has spiraled outward, enmeshing more and more participants.
None of the lawful nets are designed to catch fish by enmeshing them.
They are enmeshing businesses and savings in a web of regulations and extra taxes.
Next, two separate hierarchical regressions were conducted to analyze whether gender differences moderated the relation between enmeshing family interactions and depressive symptoms and between emotional disengagement and depressive symptoms.
It was anticipated also that girls, more than boys, who experience enmeshing or emotionally disengaged family interactions during toddlerhood would display symptoms of depression during middle childhood.
Hostile parental behavior often accompanies controlling and enmeshing parental behavior.
The enmeshing pattern involves a parent's attempt to "pull in" the child to meet his or her needs, without respecting the child's personal or psychological space.