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Enmesh vs Entwine - What's the difference?

enmesh | entwine |

As verbs the difference between enmesh and entwine

is that enmesh is to mesh; to tangle or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in a mesh or net like manner while entwine is to twist or twine around something (or one another).

enmesh

English

Verb

  • To mesh; to tangle or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in a mesh or net like manner.
  • To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult
  • To involve in difficulties.

    • Related terms

    * inmesh

    entwine

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (entwin)
  • To twist or twine around something (or one another).
  • * Shelley
    • entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined , in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.}}

    Usage notes

    Particularly used in attributive form entwined. Often used interchangeably with intertwine, with minor usage distinctions. In symmetric sense of two things twining around each other, such as the branches of two trees, narrower (term) may be preferred, but these are not strictly distinguished. In asymmetric sense of one thing twined in or around another – rather than mutually – such as a vine twined around a tree (but tree not twined around the vine), entwined is preferred.

    Synonyms

    * (twine around one another) (l)