ENTWINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entwine mean? 

• ENTWINE (verb)
  The verb ENTWINE has 2 senses:

1. tie or link together

2. spin, wind, or twist together

  Familiarity information: ENTWINE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTWINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they entwine    ... he / she / it entwines   
Past simple: entwined   
Past participle: entwined   
-ing form: entwining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tie or link together

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

entwine; knit

Hypernyms (to "entwine" is one way to...):

conjoin; join (make contact or come together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "entwine"):

purl stitch (make with purl stitches)

intertwine; loop (make a loop in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spin, wind, or twist together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

enlace; entwine; interlace; intertwine; lace; twine

Context example:

intertwined hearts

Hypernyms (to "entwine" is one way to...):

distort; twine; twist (form into a spiral shape)

Verb group:

twine (make by twisting together or intertwining)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "entwine"):

wind; wreathe (form into a wreath)

wattle (interlace to form wattle)

plash; pleach (interlace the shoots of)

knot; ravel; tangle (tangle or complicate)

splice (join by interweaving strands)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

The muscular hand broke from my custody; my arm was seized, my shoulder—neck—waist—I was entwined and gathered to him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There flashed into his mind the picture of her mother, of the kiss of greeting, and of the pair of them walking toward him with arms entwined.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then there was the crashing about of the entwined bodies, the laboured breathing, the short quick gasps of sudden pain.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A red chaperon or cap, with long hanging cornette, sat daintily on the back of his black-curled head, while his gold-hued shoes were twisted up a la poulaine, as though the toes were shooting forth a tendril which might hope in time to entwine itself around his massive leg.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)