tangle

ot noun

1. A complicated or confused state or condition. I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere.
2. A tangled twisted mass.
3. An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
4. A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.

fe’l verb

1. To become mixed together or intertwined Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.
2. To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight Don't tangle with someone three times your size.
3. To mix together or intertwine
4. To catch and hold; to ensnare.