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Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.
Joseph B. Wirthlin

Meaning of "enmeshed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ENMESHED

enmeshed  [ɪnˈmɛʃt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENMESHED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Enmeshed is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ENMESHED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of enmeshed in the English dictionary

The definition of enmeshed in the dictionary is if someone is enmeshed in something such as a debate, dispute, or scandal, they cannot make progress and cannot get out of it easily.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENMESHED


Resht
rɛʃt
unrefreshed
ˌʌnrɪˈfrɛʃt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENMESHED

enlistee
enlister
enlistment
enliven
enlivener
enlivening
enlivenment
enlock
enlumine
enmesh
enmeshment
enmities
enmity
enmossed
ennage
ennead
enneadic
enneagon
enneagonal
enneahedra

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENMESHED

accomplished
brushed
dashed
diminished
distinguished
established
finished
furnished
in the shed
Meshed
polished
pushed
refreshed
rushed
shed
smashed
the great unwashed
unfinished
unpublished
well-established

Synonyms and antonyms of enmeshed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ENMESHED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «enmeshed» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of enmeshed

Translation of «enmeshed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENMESHED

Find out the translation of enmeshed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of enmeshed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «enmeshed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

纠缠
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enredado
570 millions of speakers

English

enmeshed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

enmeshed
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متورط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

опутана
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

enredado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জড়িয়ে ফেলে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

empêtré
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Enmeshed
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verstrickt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

絡まる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

말려 들게
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Enmeshed
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

enmeshed
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிக்கிவிடக்கூடாது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चिडचिड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ağ gibi saran
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

enmeshed
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uwikłani
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

обплутана
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

trezit prinși
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βασανίζονται
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verbonde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

insnärjd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

enmeshed
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of enmeshed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENMESHED»

The term «enmeshed» is regularly used and occupies the 97.920 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENMESHED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about enmeshed

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2 QUOTES WITH «ENMESHED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word enmeshed.
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Leslie Morgan Steiner
My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the last couple you'd imagine enmeshed in domestic violence.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENMESHED»

Discover the use of enmeshed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to enmeshed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
When He's Married to Mom: How to Help Mother-Enmeshed Men ...
In his twenty-five years of practice, Dr. Adams has successfully treated hundreds of enmeshed men and shares their stories in this informative guide.
Kenneth M. Adams, 2007
2
Family Therapy: An Overview: An Overview
Most families are neither totally enmeshed nor totally disengaged, although they may contain enmeshed or disengaged subsystems. Minuchin and Nichols (1993) describe a familiar, if troubled, middle-class family pattern in which a ...
Herbert Goldenberg, Irene Goldenberg, 2008
3
Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy: A Guide to ...
Minuchin (Minuchin, Montalvo, Guerney, Rosman, & Schumer, 1967) has described families in terms of "enmeshed" versus "disengaged" transactional styles. He points out that most families are not totally enmeshed or disengaged, but rather ...
Ellen F. Wachtel, Paul L. Wachtel, 1990
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Self-esteem and Female Gender Roles in Daughters with ...
Chief among these is the often-problematic subject of mother/daughter relationships. This study was designed to look at the relationship between self-esteem and female role development in daughters with over enmeshed mothers.
Steven E. Hendrix, 2008
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Times Enmeshed: Gender, Space, and History Among the Duna of ...
1. History. and. Histories. HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AMONG THE DUNA IMAGINATION AND CONTRADICTION IN HISTORICAL CONJUNCTURES Walter Benjamin in his Illuminations writes that "history is the object of a construct  ...
Gabriele Stürzenhofecker, 1998
6
The Invisible Web: Gender Patterns in Family Relationships
Enmeshed Father-Daughter Relationship In the enmeshed patterns, father and daughter are more involved with each other, in collusion or in conflict, than either of them is with mother. NONCONFLICTUAL VARIATION: "DADDY'S LITTLE ...
‎1991
7
How Families Work Together
members of enmeshed families. The level of emotion is low in disengaged families, while it can be extremely high in enmeshed families. Neither an enmeshed nor disengaged style of family interaction is "healthy" or "unhealthy." Only at the ...
Mary F. Whiteside, Craig E. Aronoff, John L. Ward, 1993
8
Bulimia: Book for Therapist and Client
Kathy's family represents the most frequent pattern and can be characterized as over-controlling and enmeshed. However, some families are at the other end of the continuum and are chaotic with little apparent involvement or interacting of the ...
Barbara G. Bauer, Wayne P. Anderson, Robert W. Hyatt, 1986
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The Art of Managing Everyday Conflict: Understanding ...
Enmeshed relationships may often occur between parents and children. People in enmeshed relationships usually do not believe that they can be successful on their own. These people tend to believe that they need their partner to survive.
Erik A. Fisher, Steven W. Sharp, 2004
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Families and Family Therapy
Most families have enmeshed and disengaged subsystems. The mother- children subsystem may tend toward enmeshment while the children are small, and the father may take a disengaged position with regard to the children. Mother and ...
Salvador MINUCHIN, Salvador Minuchin, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENMESHED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term enmeshed is used in the context of the following news items.
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Disgraced homeschool leader explains how Josh Duggar was …
... hasn't been particularly vocal since his followers, the Duggar family, became enmeshed in a sexual abuse scandal involving their oldest son, ... «Salon, Jul 15»
2
Minions get their own movie, but need a better script
Kevin, Bob and Stuart inadvertently win a job in Overkill's entourage, and they're soon enmeshed in her plan to take the British throne, along ... «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»
3
ResponsibleOhio Marijuana Legalization Investor Has Business …
The landscaping company raided by FBI agents Tuesday morning is enmeshed in a lawsuit alleging fraud involving a contract with a ... «The Weed Blog, Jul 15»
4
'Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld' Review: Should We Look Away?
Charlesworth reveals how the last sad acts and moments of people can become a public display because all images are enmeshed in a social ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
5
Connecting with native trout
On youtube.com there are many interviews with Prosek educating and inspiring others — a lifelong mission first sparked by his time enmeshed ... «Easton Courier, Jul 15»
6
NASS Crisis: Dogara's Group Concedes House Leader To …
The House has been enmeshed in crisis following Mr. Dogara's election against the wish his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. «Nigerian Beacon, Jul 15»
7
The walls talk in the Groucho Club
... because they suggested an essential truth: during the heyday of 'Cool Britannia', British art and the Groucho were enmeshed like the double ... «Christie's, Jul 15»
8
Blog: Third Circuit Renders Opinion In Trinity Wall Street V. Wal-Mart …
[“But is how a retailer weighs safety in deciding which products to sell too enmeshed with its day-to-day business? We think it is in this instance. «JD Supra, Jul 15»
9
China, the Middle East and the Global Economy–Where Might the …
China seeks to accomplish this golden vision without intruding upon or becoming overly enmeshed in the complex political divisions, rivalries ... «The National Law Review, Jul 15»
10
From Offshore: Bloggerel
... and these good citizens will find themselves accidentally enmeshed in tales of Matinicus Island, and then be led to my books, and then to the ... «Freepress Online, Jul 15»

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