Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To entangle or catch in or as if in a mesh. synonym: catch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To inclose in or as if in meshes; immesh; entangle; snare.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
mesh ; totangle orinterweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in amesh ornet like manner. - verb To
involve in such complications as to renderextrication difficult - verb To involve in
difficulties .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh
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Examples
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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.
Haiti Charges Former Dictator Ingrid Arnesen 2011
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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.
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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.”
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I re-invent them and enmesh them into new forms of visual kinship, another way to capture reality.
Evelyne Politanoff: Maurizio Anzeri: MakeUp Art or Embroidered Portraits Evelyne Politanoff 2012
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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.
The size of government matters Jennifer Rubin 2011
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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.
Michael Brenner: America and the World -- Post November 2nd Michael Brenner 2010
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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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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.
Murdoch's banishment is but the first step in cleaning up the media | Henry Porter 2011
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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.
Michael Brenner: America and the World -- Post November 2nd Michael Brenner 2010
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I re-invent them and enmesh them into new forms of visual kinship, another way to capture reality.
Evelyne Politanoff: Maurizio Anzeri: MakeUp Art or Embroidered Portraits Evelyne Politanoff 2012
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