Entangle
Entangle , transitive verb
1.
To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
2.
To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.
Entangling alliances.
The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings.
Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain.