Definitions of tangle:

• noun:   something jumbled or confused

  Example: "A tangle of government regulations"

• noun:   a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven

  Example: "They carved their way through the tangle of vines"

• verb:   force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
• verb:   twist together or entwine into a confusing mass

  Example: "The child entangled the cord"

• verb:   tangle or complicate
• verb:   disarrange or rumple; dishevel