entwine
English
Alternative forms
- (archaic) intwine
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -aɪn
- Hyphenation: en‧twine
Verb
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- To twist or twine around something (or one another).
- Shelley
- entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks
- 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
- Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.
- Shelley
Usage notes
Particularly used in attributive form entwined.
Often used interchangeably with intertwine, with minor usage distinctions. In symmetric sense of two things twining around each other, such as the branches of two trees, narrower intertwine may be preferred, but these are not strictly distinguished. In asymmetric sense of one thing twined in or around another – rather than mutually – such as a vine twined around a tree (but tree not twined around the vine), entwined is preferred.
Synonyms
- (twine around one another): intertwine
Derived terms
- entwinement (noun)
- entwining (noun)
- entwining (adj)
Translations
twist or twine
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