LekhoriLekhoriHaving a great deal of fine detail or complexity.
The architecture of this clock is very intricate.
Difficult to disentangle, puzzle apart, or resolve; enigmatic, obscure.
The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; Nor ſees with how much Art the Windings run, Nor where the regular Confuſion ends.
To become enmeshed or entangled.
[…] washes off easily, without sticking or intricating into the wound.
From Middle English intricat(e) (“entangled, intricate”), from Latin intrīcātus, perfect passive participle of intricō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate.
But the British and French won't hear of that; they want to get their troops extricated and our ground troops intricated.