[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That entangles.

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a. 1628.  Sir J. Beaumont, Poems, Dial. betw. World, Pilgr., & Vertue, in Farr, S. P. Jas. I. (1847), 150. My paces with intangling briers are bound.

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1636.  Denham, Destr. Troy, 210 (1656), 11. Then him … They seiz’d, and with intangling folds imbrac’d His neck.

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1735.  Somerville, Chase, III. 42/61. Thick with entangling Grass, or prickly Furze.

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1746–7.  Hervey, Medit. (1818), 45. Escaped from an entangling wilderness.

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1884.  Chr. World, 12 June, 433/1. Entangling alliances with foreign nations are to be avoided.

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  Hence Entanglingly adv., in an entangling manner.

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1878.  Scribn. Mag., XVI. 38/1. The rest of the road presented still steeper pitches, deeper bogs, and more entanglingly strewn rocks.

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