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19 words match “INTERWEAVE”

INTERWEAVE v. 2 definitions
To intermingle; to unite intimately; to connect closely; as, to interweave truth with falsehood. Dryden. Words interwove with sighs found out their way. Milton.
CRISP v.
To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.
ENTANGLE v.
To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
ENTRAIL v.
To interweave; to intertwine. [Obs.] Spenser.
IMPLEACH v.
To pleach; to interweave. [Obs.] Shak.
IMPLICATE v.
To infold; to fold together; to interweave. The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley.
INTERDIGITATE v.
To interweave. [R.]
INTERLACE v.
as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches (Arch.), arches, usually circular, so constructed that their archivolts intersec…
INTERPALE v.
To interweave or interlace. [R.] Brende.
INTERWOVE; INTERWOVEN n.
imp. & p. p. of Interweave.
INTWIST v.
To twist into or together; to interweave. [Written also entwist.]
MAT v.
To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle. And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair. Dryden.
PLAIT v.
To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.
RADDLE v.
To interweave or twist together. Raddling or working it up like basket work. De Foe.
TANGLE v.
To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
TEXTURE v.
To form a texture of or with; to interweave. [R.]
TISSUE v.
To form tissue of; to interweave. Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. Bacon.
WATTLE v.
To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
WORK v.
by the night tide as well as by the day. -- To work in, to insert, introduce, mingle, or interweave by labor or skill. -- To work into, to force, urge, or insinuate into; as, to work one's self into favor or confidence. -- To work off, to remove gradually, as by labor, or a gradual process; as, beer works off impuri…