ENMESHED Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

enmeshed

verb

variants also immeshed

past tense of enmesh

as in tangled

to catch or hold as if in a net soon after Eli Whitney had invented it, others copied his cotton gin, and he spent the rest of his life enmeshed in lawsuits trying to protect his invention

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The move by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to forgo a formal recommendation paves the way for President Biden to terminate a $14 billion transaction that became ensnared in election-year politics.

Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
His former second-in-command, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, was indicted last week, and several other members of the administration, nearly all of whom have since left the administration, have also been ensnared in investigations.

Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024

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