enmesh
IPA: ɛnmˈɛʃ
verb
- To mesh; to tangle or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in a mesh- or net-like manner.
- To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.
- To involve in difficulties.
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Examples of "enmesh" in Sentences
- They enmeshed the children.
- The man enmeshed the crowds.
- The sayings enmeshed the men.
- The laws enmeshed him into the principle.
- They were to enmesh themselves into the woods.
- His ambitions innocently enmesh him with the law.
- The people enmeshed themselves into the relationship.
- The dreams enmeshed the people into a certain emotion.
- The laws were not supposed to enmesh the people like that.
- Thou wilt not with Predestination round Enmesh me and impute my fall in sin
- I re-invent them and enmesh them into new forms of visual kinship, another way to capture reality.
- For years we have followed a sensible strategy of striving to enmesh a burgeoning China in the network of institutions and practices that constitute the interdependent world economy.
- One of the more shaming aspects of the phone-hacking affair and all the interlocking circles of corruption and compromise is that they expose a huge failure in my generation, which has allowed Murdoch to enmesh our politics, media and police.
- The former dictator's unexpected arrival Sunday after nearly 25 years of exile stunned the nation, and appeared to further enmesh Haiti in the political crisis caused by the country's botched attempt to hold presidential elections in November.
- Likewise my own brute interventions in this filigree offer insight into the wider manner of our whole species – the way we cannot help, sometimes despite our best intentions, cutting across these subtle connections that spin out and enmesh the whole wide world.
- In such a situation, the court says, “the state actor [would have] lacked a ‘secular purpose’ for his actions,” and the action would have had “a primary effect of advancing religion” as well as “enmesh [ing] churches in the exercise of substantial governmental powers.”
- More ruinous in the long run is the extent to which the "safety net" has come to enmesh more and more Americans - reaching into middle incomes and higher - so that growing numbers have come to rely on government, not themselves, for growing shares of their income and assets.
- More than an aid program, it sought to modernize Western Europe's economies and launch them on a path to prosperity and integration; to restore Western Europe's faith in democracy and capitalism; to enmesh the region firmly in a Western economic association and eventually a military alliance.
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