enmeshed

[en-mesh]

en·mesh

[en-mesh]
verb (used with object)
to catch, as in a net; entangle: He was enmeshed by financial difficulties.


Origin:
1595–1605; en-1 + mesh

en·mesh·ment, noun
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Enmeshed is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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enmeshed

adjective
caught as if in a mesh; "enmeshed in financial difficulties" 
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