enmesh

[en-mesh]

verb (used with object)

1. to catch, as in a net; entangle.

   He was enmeshed by financial difficulties.

enmesh

/ ɪnˈmɛʃ /

verb

1. (tr) to catch or involve in or as if in a net or snare; entangle

Other Word Forms

• enmeshment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of enmesh¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; en- ¹ + mesh

Example Sentences

It’s a lifestyle that breeds camaraderie among the merchants, whose businesses are also, in many cases, enmeshed.

From Los Angeles Times

But the car industry is just one area in which Chinese technology is becoming increasingly enmeshed in the UK economy.

From BBC

One person may, for example, be focusing on buying back the master recordings of her first six albums, while the other is enmeshed in rearing her four children with Deadpool.

From Salon

America’s elite universities are already deeply enmeshed with top schools abroad, from engineering partnerships with the Indian Institute of Technology to the Persian Gulf campuses of Georgetown, Texas A&M and NYU.

From Los Angeles Times

At this point, what started as a throwaway joke has grown into something vaguely earnest — too big to fail and too enmeshed in the neighborhood to be abandoned in good conscience.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• embroil 
• ensnare 
• entangle 
• entrap 
• implicate 
• snare