Entangle and Implicate

verb

• Entrap.
  • usage: "Our people should not be mired in the past"
  • synonyms: mire
• Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass.
  • usage: "The child entangled the cord"
  • synonyms: tangle, mat, snarl

• (v.t.) To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
• (v.t.) To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net or in briers.

verb

• Bring into intimate and incriminating connection.
  • usage: "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government"
• Impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result.
  • usage: "What does this move entail"
  • synonyms: entail

• (v.t.) To infold; to fold together; to interweave.
• (v.t.) To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc.