Commit and Tangle

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

• A twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven.
  • usage: "they carved their way through the tangle of vines"
• Something jumbled or confused.
  • usage: "a tangle of government regulations"
  • synonyms: snarl, maze

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, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in
• Tangle or complicate.
  • usage: "a ravelled story"
  • synonyms: ravel, knot
• Disarrange or rumple; dishevel.
  • usage: "The strong wind tousled my hair"
  • synonyms: tousle, dishevel
• Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass.
  • usage: "The child entangled the cord"
  • synonyms: entangle, mat, snarl

• (v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs or bundles of frayed rope or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
• (v.i.) To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
• (n.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.
• (v.) A knot of threads or other thing, united confusedly or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
• (n.) To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.
• (n.) To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.