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web

noun
  1. An open fabric woven of strands that are interlaced and knotted at usually regular intervals: mesh, net 1, netting, network. See thing
  2. Something that is intricately and often bewilderingly complex: cat's cradle, entanglement, jungle, knot, labyrinth, maze, mesh (often used in plural), morass, skein, snarl 2, tangle. See simple
  3. An interwoven or interrelated number of things: network, tissue. See group
  4. A distinctive, complex underlying pattern or structure: contexture, fabric, fiber, texture, warp and woof. See be
verb
To gain control of or an advantage over by or as if by trapping: catch, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entrap, snare, tangle, trammel, trap. See free

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