συμπλέκω

1. to twine or plait together , (Plato Philosophus); τινί with a thing, (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus); συμπλέκοντες τὼ χεῖρε εἰς τοὐπίσω joining their hands behind them, (Thucydides)

2. Pass. to be twined together, entwined, entangled , (Euripides); ἴχνη συμπεπλεγμένα tracks entangled, crossing in different directions , (Xenophon Historicus)

3. of persons wrestling, to be locked together with another, with dative, (Herdotus Historicus): generally, to be engaged in close fight , (Demosthenes Orator): of a ship, to be entangled with her opponent, (Herdotus Historicus):—;then, metaphorically to be entangled in , τῇ Σκυθῶν ἐρημίᾳ συμπλακῆναι (Aristophanes Comicus); συμπεπλέγμεθα ξένῳ we are entangled or engaged with him, (Euripides); of war, to be engaged in , (Demosthenes Orator)

4. intransitive in Act., = Pass., (Euripides) (ML)