tangle

a tangle with sb.

an inextricable tangle of threads.

a tangle of golden hair.

a dense tangle of spinney

tangled with the law.

to free tangled ropes

a tangled mass of hair

Your hair looks a bit tangled.

The legal tangle was never really unravelled.

he found the snake pretzeled into a tangle of knots.

they usually come a cropper when they tangle with the heavy mobs.

tangled by his own duplicity;

The wind tangled her hair.

A movement caught his eye in the tangled undergrowth.

her blonde hair was a mass of tangled curls.

what a tangled web we weave when we first practise to deceive.

sleep ravelled out the tangles of his mind.