"betangle" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From be- (“around, about”) + tangle.",
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      "form": "betangles",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1851, John Poole, Hablot Knight Browne, The Comic Miscellany, page 222",
          "text": "But it is plain to all of us, that that woman is betangling you more and more every day; she has got you in her tiles; she's a-weaning you one by one from all your good old friends, and won't allow you even a single hour to spend amongst us.",
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          "ref": "1985, The Economist, volume 296, page 34",
          "text": "It thought it had so finessed the problem of New Caledonia that the independence conflict there would not betangle next year's parliamentary election in France.",
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        "To tangle around or about, entwine, encumber."
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          "tangle",
          "tangle"
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          "entwine",
          "entwine"
        ],
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          "encumber",
          "encumber"
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To tangle around or about, entwine, encumber."
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        "transitive"
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  "word": "betangle"
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        "2": "be-",
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        "t1": "around, about"
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      "expansion": "be- (“around, about”) + tangle",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From be- (“around, about”) + tangle.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "betangles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "betangling",
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      "form": "betangled",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1851, John Poole, Hablot Knight Browne, The Comic Miscellany, page 222",
          "text": "But it is plain to all of us, that that woman is betangling you more and more every day; she has got you in her tiles; she's a-weaning you one by one from all your good old friends, and won't allow you even a single hour to spend amongst us.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, The Economist, volume 296, page 34",
          "text": "It thought it had so finessed the problem of New Caledonia that the independence conflict there would not betangle next year's parliamentary election in France.",
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        "To tangle around or about, entwine, encumber."
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          "entwine",
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