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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : en-mesh |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈmɛʃ |
Definition of enmesh
Origin :- c.1600, from en- (1) + mesh (v.). Related: Enmeshed; enmeshing.
- verb involve in a situation
- He had no fear of the consequences of his attempt to enmesh Louise Treharne.
- Extract from : « The Eddy » by Clarence L. Cullen
- He was leading the way into a trap, long set, which was sure to enmesh its prey.
- Extract from : « Wunpost » by Dane Coolidge
- What misshapen gargantuan of nebulous formed flesh, hurls out its flood of darkness, the systems to enmesh.
- Extract from : « Futuria Fantasia, Winter 1940 » by Ray Bradbury
- I let my father do as he pleases; he daily seeks to enmesh me more and more in the affairs of the town, and I submit.
- Extract from : « The Youth of Goethe » by Peter Hume Brown
- Both must appear sad and joyless in the extreme, and enmesh the beholder in blackest pessimism.
- Extract from : « William Blake » by Charles Gardner
- If one man is to run a hedge round a pasture, the pasture must first be stripped of the rights of common which enmesh it.
- Extract from : « The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century » by Richard Henry Tawney
- Ross strove to enmesh them in the robe, using the pressure of his body to slam them all on the buttons and levers of the board.
- Extract from : « Key Out of Time » by Andre Alice Norton
- He maintained his position, and was condemned to death as a traitor, under the law which had been framed expressly to enmesh him.
- Extract from : « Ten Tudor Statesmen » by Arthur D. Innes
- All his anxiety was that Cesare should enmesh himself deep enough; and then—!
- Extract from : « Little Novels of Italy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
- If her behaviour had been designed to draw him on and enmesh him completely, it could not have been more effective.
- Extract from : « The Honour of the Clintons » by Archibald Marshall
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