tangled

adj 1: in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the

tangled ropes" [ant: {untangled}]

2: highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure";

"convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "an

intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was

too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by

labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we

weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures";

"tortuous negotiations lasting for months" [syn: {Byzantine},

{convoluted}, {intricate}, {involved}, {knotty}, {labyrinthine},

{tortuous}]

manged

/mahnjd/ [probably from the French "manger" or Italian

"mangiare", to eat; perhaps influenced by English "mange",

"mangy"] Refers to anything that is mangled or damaged,

usually beyond repair. "The disk was manged after the

electrical storm." Compare {mung}.

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