enmeshed

Word Origin & History

c.1600, from en- (1) + mesh (v.). Related: Enmeshed; enmeshing.

Then, after the editor is under obligations, favors are asked and the editor is enmeshed.

He cast the garment so that it enmeshed the sword when next it was advanced.

Detective Crowley was enmeshed in a mystery which he could not solve just then.

But the more she tossed the tighter she enmeshed herself in the web.

The memory of her beauty was like a net which enmeshed his thoughts when he tried to escape it.

But she never had dreamed that he could be enmeshed by the wiles of the wife of his friend.

He did not answer, raging at the skill with which she enmeshed him.

Enmeshed as he was in the underbrush, he was in no position to dodge.

Kedzie's silence about the existence of a husband had enmeshed him.

As the milk curdles the bacteria are enmeshed and are carried with the curd.

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verb involve in a situation

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adjective. implicated in action

adjective. caught