Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Interlocked and interacting (used of toothed parts or gears): Refers to parts, especially gears, that are fitted together so their teeth engage and work in unison.
   • Entangled or caught as if in a net or mesh: Describes a state of being intricately involved, trapped, or intertwined in a complex situation.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective (Mechanical):
  • The intermeshed gears of the clockwork mechanism turned smoothly.
  • For the machine to function, the two cogs must be perfectly intermeshed.
• Adjective (Figurative):
  • The company became intermeshed in a web of contractual obligations.
  • Their fates were tragically intermeshed from the very beginning.

Advanced Usage

• "Deeply intermeshed": Used to emphasize a very complex or inseparable connection.
  • The political and economic systems of the two nations are deeply intermeshed.
• "Intermeshed with": Describes something being intricately connected or combined with something else.
  • His personal life was completely intermeshed with his work.

Variants and Related Words

• Mesh (verb): To fit together or interlock.
  • The two plans meshed perfectly.
• Enmeshed (adjective): Involved in a difficult or complicated situation from which it is hard to escape. (Often used in figurative contexts).
  • He was enmeshed in legal troubles.
• Interlocking (adjective): Fitting into each other so that movement of one causes movement of another.
  • The puzzle consists of interlocking pieces.

Synonyms

• Interlocked: Connected or locked together.
• Engaged: (Of gears) in contact and operating.
• Entangled: Twisted together or involved in a complicated way.
• Intertwined: Twisted or connected closely together.

Related Phrases

• "Intermeshed interests": A situation where the concerns or benefits of different parties are closely connected.
  • The merger was driven by their intermeshed interests in the Asian market.
• "Become intermeshed": To become intricately connected or involved.
  • Over time, the two storylines became intermeshed.

Adjective

1. (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
   • the gears are engaged
   • meshed gears
   • intermeshed twin rotors
2. caught as if in a mesh
   • enmeshed in financial difficulties