entwine
to twine with, about, around, or together.
Origin of entwine
1- Also intwine.
Other words from entwine
- en·twine·ment, noun
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How to use entwine in a sentence
Weiss sends mixed messages to her daughter and entwines them inextricably with her own struggle with body image.
The Biggest Threat of Dara-Lynn Weiss and Vogue’s ‘7-Year-Old on a Diet’ | Isabel Wilkinson | March 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSometimes the memory of a gesture or of a fold of your garment suddenly seizes me and entwines me like a net!
Salammbo | Gustave FlaubertThe Persian entwines around his heart the remembrance only of the atoning sufferings on the cross of Mithra the Mediator.
The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors | Kersey GravesA monstrous serpent entwines him, seizing him round the hind legs and the body with his enormous coils.
Legends & Romances of Brittany | Lewis SpenceBelow the platform, on a triangle, is a club, around which the serpent of Æsculapius entwines itself.
Book-Plates | William J. Hardy
Little need to enquire what it is that entwines The Arabian Nights round our hearts.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton | Thomas Wright
British Dictionary definitions for entwine
intwine
/ (ɪnˈtwaɪn) /
(of two or more things) to twine together or (of one or more things) to twine around (something else)
Derived forms of entwine
- entwinement or intwinement, noun
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