0 a situation or relationship that you are involved in and that is difficult to escape from: --
1 the condition of being wrapped and twisted together in a mass: --
Then there are miles and miles of land still covered with barbed wire entanglements.
There had then been slight war damage relating mainly to windows and plaster and barbed wire entanglements had been placed on the property.
While we desire to live on terms of peace and friendliness with all nations, we want no entanglements.
We admit that it requires skill, courage and integrity, but we expect—and we have a right to expect—statesmanship to extricate us from difficult entanglements.
One is the suggestion of charity; the other is the suggestion of political entanglements.
I wish to keep myself free from entanglements.
How little could any have foreseen the entanglements to which it would reach!
Once the sale starts, without compensation and all sorts of legal entanglements, it will be a juggernaut that cannot be stopped.
