| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Something that is intricately and often bewilderingly complex: cat's cradle, entanglement, jungle, knot, labyrinth, maze, mesh (often used in plural), morass, skein, snarl2, tangle. See SIMPLE. 2. A distinctive, complex underlying pattern or structure: contexture, fabric, fiber, texture, warp and woof. See BE. 3. An interwoven or interrelated number of things: network, tissue. See GROUP. 4. An open fabric woven of strands that are interlaced and knotted at usually regular intervals: mesh, net1, netting, network. See THING. | | VERB: | To gain control of or an advantage over by or as if by trapping: catch, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entrap, snare, tangle, trammel, trap. See FREE.
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