snare, ensnare, escalate, deescalate, escalatory, tangle, entanglement, frenzied, layover

'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.'

— Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

 

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As fighting across Ukraine escalates and Russia becomes increasingly isolated from the international community, The Economist’s editor-in-chief,

The United States has taken a highly escalatory step in assassinating one of the most important and powerful men in the Middle East. Ilan Goldenberg considers what comes next after the death of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani.

Slavery Ensnares Thousands in U.K. Here's One Teenage Girl's Story.

By CEYLAN YEGINSU

Across Britain, vulnerable adults and children - both citizens and migrants - have become victims of modern slavery. A teenager trapped by a drug gang tells what happened to her.

The two countries agree to deescalate a months-long territorial standoff in the Himalayas, ahead of a major economic summit.

Russia Steps Up Raids Against Migrants

By STEVEN LEE MYERS and ANDREW ROTH

The raids have reportedly ensnared nearly 1,500 foreigners, including detainees being held in a Moscow tent camp under conditions that Human Rights Watch called inhuman.

Emirates’ Laws Ensnare South African Doctor

By LYDIA POLGREEN

Dr. Cyril Karabus, an oncologist who was arrested on a layover in the United Arab Emirates, is trapped there by criminal charges he had not been aware of.

 

Escape Tangles U.S.-China Ties

China clamped down on activists following the escape of a human-rights advocate from home imprisonment, which could complicate U.S.-China relations if he is found in U.S. custody. The U.S. dispatched Assistant Secretary of State for Asia affairs Kurt Campbell to Beijing.

'The Churchills: In Love and War'
By MARY S. LOVELL
Reviewed by WALTER OLSON


This history of the Churchill clan skips the oratory and war-making in favor of juicy domestic tangles.


'Rebel Land'
By CHRISTOPHER DE BELLAIGUE
Reviewed by JOSEPH O'NEILL


Christopher de Bellaigue investigates the bewildering historical entanglements in which Turkey is ensnared.

Satyam Probe Could Ensnare Others

Spanish companies that poured money into Latin American utilities and airlines are becoming ensnared by populist economics as governments seize their businesses.



Japan Fires General Who Said a U.S. ‘Trap’ Led to the Pearl Harbor Attack
By NORIMITSU ONISHIA high-ranking Japanese military official was dismissed for writing an essay stating that the United States had ensnared Japan into World War II.

Frenzied Hours for U.S. on Fate of a China Insider

By STEVEN LEE MYERS and MARK LANDLER

A Chinese official who said he had information about Bo Xilai sought and was denied asylum, ensnaring the Obama administration in a sensitive episode.

Intrigue in Russia
Ensnares BP Venture

By GUY CHAZAN and GREGORY L. WHITE

BP PLC's partners in a Russian oil venture sought the ouster of the unit's chief executive, escalating a dispute that could shape the future of the British energy giant and the role of foreign companies in Russia under the country's new president.

ensnare
verb [T] LITERARY
to catch or get control of something or someone:
Spiders ensnare flies and other insects in their webs.
They wanted to make a formal complaint about their doctor, but ended up ensnared in the complexities of the legal system.

━━ vt. わなにかける; だます; 落とす ((in, into)).

escalate
verb [I or T]
to make or become greater or more serious:
The decision to escalate UN involvement has been taken in the hopes of a swift end to the hostilities.
His financial problems escalated after he became unemployed.
The escalating rate of inflation will almost certainly bring escalating prices.

deescalate
de+ escalate

escalation
noun [C or U]
It's difficult to explain the recent escalation in/of violent crime.



tangle

[動](他)［III[名]（[副]）］

1 〈糸・髪の毛などを〉（…に）もつれさせる, からませる；((受身))（…と）もつれる((up/with ...))

Her hair was tangled (up) with branches.
彼女の髪の毛は枝にからまった.

2 …を紛糾させる, 妨げる；…を（…に）巻き込む((up/in, with ...))

get tangled up with a bunch of bad guys
悪い仲間に巻き込まれる.

3 〈鳥などを〉わなに掛けて捕まえる；((しばしば〜 -self))…を陥れる

tangle oneself in one's own snare
自分の仕掛けたわなに掛かる；自業自得である.

━━(自)［I（[副]）］

1 〈枝・事柄などが〉（…に）からみ合う, もつれる((in ...))；（…について）紛糾する((over ...))；陥る.

2 ((略式))〈人が〉（…と；…のことで）争う, けんか［論争］する, やり合う((with ...；over ...))

We tangled with our boss over the new contract.
新しい契約のことで上役と争った.

━━[名]

1 もつれた［からんだ］状態；（髪・糸などの）もつれ

a tangle of clothes
もつれあった布.

2 ((通例a 〜))紛糾, 混乱；当惑

His financial affairs are in a tangle.
経済状態は火の車だ.

3 ((略式))（…との）争い, けんか, 口論((with ...))

He got in a tangle with his boss.
上司にかみついた.

entangle

[動](他)

1 〈糸・網などを〉もつれさせる；〈衣服などを〉（…に）からませる, ひっかける((in, among, with ...))

The rope got entangled in the propeller.
綱がスクリューにからまった.

2 〈人を〉（めんどうなことに）巻き込む((in ...))；〈人を〉（人と）深くかかわり合わせる((with ...))

He was entangled in a financial scandal.
疑獄に巻き込まれた

He got himself entangled with money-lenders.
高利貸しとめんどうなことになった.

3 〈人を〉困惑［混乱, 当惑］させる；〈問題などを〉わからなくさせる, 複雑にさせる, 紛糾させる.

-gler

[名]

entanglement

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtaŋg(ə)lm(ə)nt, ɛn-/

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noun

[mass noun]

• the action or fact of entangling or being entangled:many dolphins die from entanglement in fishing nets
• [count noun] a complicated or compromising relationship or situation:romantic entanglements
• [count noun] an extensive barrier, typically made of barbed wire and stakes, erected to impede enemy soldiers or vehicles: the attackers were caught up on wire entanglements

entanglement

[名]

1 [U][C]もつれ［混乱, 紛糾］（させること）；（難局などに）巻き込む［込まれる］こと；（体面にかかわる）恋愛関係；（…との）かかわり((with ...)).

2 もつれさす［もつれた］もの, 混乱さすもの, わな.

3 ((〜s))《軍事》鉄条網, 妨害物.

layover

noun

a period of rest or waiting before a further stage in a journey.

Pronunciation: /snɛː/

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noun

• 1a trap for catching birds or mammals, typically one having a noose of wire or cord.
• a thing likely to lure or tempt someone into harm or error:seducers laid their snares for innocent provincials

• 2a length of wire, gut, or hide stretched across a drumhead to produce a rattling sound.
• (also snare drum) a drum fitted with snares; a side drum.

• 3 Surgery a wire loop for severing polyps or other growths.

verb

[with object]

• catch (a bird or mammal) in a snare: the foxes were humanely snared
• catch or trap (someone):five blackmailers were snared in a police sting

Derivatives

snarer

noun

Origin:

late Old English sneare, from Old Norse snara. sense 2 of the noun is probably from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch snare 'harp string'