entanglement
noun/ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt/
Frequency rank: #14,609 most common English word
Meaning
a complicated or confused state in which things or people are caught up and hard to separate
Example sentence
The fishing net caused serious entanglement among the coral reef creatures.
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