Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To twist together; entwine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To twist or wreathe round.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To twist or wreathe round; to intwine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To twist or wreathe around; entwine.

Etymologies

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From en- +‎ twist.

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Examples

  • "So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwist," said Titania; and the blast poured the rain in a spout against the window.

    The Seaboard Parish Volume 3 George MacDonald 1864

  • "So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwist," said Titania; and the blast poured the rain in a spout against the window.

    The Seaboard Parish, Complete George MacDonald 1864

  • IV. i.45 (77,2) [So doth the woodbine, the sweet honey-suckle, Gently entwist] Mr. Upton reads,

    Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

  • "I shall be blind before I am sensible of the decay of my sight, with such kindly artifice do the Fatal Sisters entwist our lives.

    Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance Walter Pater 1866

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