enmeshes

Catches in netting

Enmeshes means catches or entangles in a mesh or net-like structure.

The word usually appears figuratively: She found herself enmeshed in office politics, The company became enmeshed in legal disputes.

To be enmeshed suggests being trapped in something complicated and difficult to escape—relationships, bureaucracy, conspiracy.

complicate

complicate

Make more difficult

perplex · muddle · snarl · knot · tangle · compound · embroil · convolute · obscure · obfuscate

entangle

entangle

Twist into confusion

tangle · weave · interlock · interlace · web · net · snare · lattice · knot · network

implicate

implicate

Suggest involvement in wrongdoing

incriminate · complicate · compromise · draw in · pull in · drag in · ensnare · entrap · inculpate · associate

trap

trap

Device for catching animals

capture · catch · net · cage · lure · ambush · entrapment · pitfall · quicksand · hook

Opposites
entanglement/entrapment

enmeshesreleases

Lets go or publishes

frees · liberates · disentangles · extricates · untangles

complexity/complication

enmeshessimplifies

Makes less complex

untangles · unravels · clarifies · streamlines · sorts out

Family

enmesh, enmeshed, enmeshment, enmeshing

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