Entangled
Entangled adjective - Twisted together in a tangled mass.
Trapped and entangled are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trapped" instead the word "Entangled" as an adjective or a verb.
Nearby Words: entanglement, entangling
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- Moya and a Pathfinder vessel are entangled and trapped in the periphery of a wormhole, and the only way out is to steer one of the two ships into the wormhole where it will be ejected, but the other will be ripped apart by tidal forces.
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Battleaxe Nurse: "Down On the Farm" has robot nurses, slaved to a 1960s minicomputer with a demonic intelligence system Because Destiny Says So: In The Jennifer Morgue, Bob and Ramona are destiny-entangled and it turns out that the villain trapped him in a James Bond destiny trap.
Source: Literature / The Laundry Series -
Her leg was trapped in the deployed parachute cord of the escape pod, but if you look closely you will see that the actual parachute being slowly pulled through whatever it is entangled in.
Source: Film / Gravity
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