What is the meaning of tangled?

verb

• Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action.
  • usage: "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"
  • synonyms: embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in
• Tangle or complicate.
  • usage: "a ravelled story"
  • synonyms: ravel, tangle, knot
• Disarrange or rumple; dishevel.
  • usage: "The strong wind tousled my hair"
  • synonyms: tousle, dishevel, tangle
• Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass.
  • usage: "The child entangled the cord"
  • synonyms: entangle, tangle, mat, snarl

adjective

• In a confused mass.
  • usage: "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes"
• Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.
  • usage: "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
  • synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tortuous