enmesh

If one man is to run a hedge round a pasture, the pasture must first be stripped of the rights of common which enmesh it.

They let him thoroughly enmesh himself, and then produced the order, written entirely in his own hand.

He maintained his position, and was condemned to death as a traitor, under the law which had been framed expressly to enmesh him.

All his anxiety was that Cesare should enmesh himself deep enough; and then—!

The fishermen he knew to be of predatory habits, and the promise of gold would enmesh them.