Enmesh: alternatives and connections

To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.

Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so…

A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.

To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the…

A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.

That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwo…

To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do.

To confuse; to entangle.

To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to in…

To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.

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To trammel; to entangle.

To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or inv…

The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.

To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled th…

In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied; as, Brussels ground. See Brussels lace, under Br…