INTERWEAVE (interwove, interwoven)

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Irregular inflected forms: interwove    , interwoven   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does interweave mean? 

• INTERWEAVE (verb)
  The verb INTERWEAVE has 1 sense:

1. interlace by or as if by weaving

  Familiarity information: INTERWEAVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERWEAVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they interweave    ... he / she / it interweave    / interweaves   
Past simple: interweaved    / interwove   
Past participle: interwoven   
-ing form: interweaving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Interlace by or as if by weaving

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

interweave; weave

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

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

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

plait (weave into plaits)

inweave (weave together into a fabric or design)

raddle; ruddle (twist or braid together, interlace)

shoot (variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors)

tinsel (interweave with tinsel)

braid; pleach (form or weave into a braid or braids)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

They are two of Neptune's seven inner moons, part of a closely packed system that is interwoven with faint rings.

(NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in 'Dance of Avoidance', NASA)

It is the truth of the sneer, stamped out from the black iron of the Cosmos and interwoven with mighty rhythms of sound into a fabric of splendor and beauty.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was none: all was interwoven stem, columnar trunk, dense summer foliage—no opening anywhere.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The mass of interwoven filamentous hyphae that forms especially the vegetative portion of the thallus of a fungus.

(Mycelium, Food and Drug Administration)

A dense intricate feltwork of interwoven fine glial processes, fibrils, synaptic terminals, axons, and dendrites interspersed among the nerve cells in the gray matter of the central nervous system.

(Neuropil, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Here it was impossible for me to advance a step; for the stalks were so interwoven, that I could not creep through, and the beards of the fallen ears so strong and pointed, that they pierced through my clothes into my flesh.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Georgiana sat on a high stool, dressing her hair at the glass, and interweaving her curls with artificial flowers and faded feathers, of which she had found a store in a drawer in the attic.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)