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

  • transitive verb To weave into a fabric or design.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To weave together; intermingle by or as if by weaving.
  • To weave in; introduce into a web in the process of manufacture, as a pattern, an inscription, or the like.

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

  • transitive verb To weave in or together; to intermix or intertwine by weaving; to interlace.

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

  • verb archaic To weave in or together; to intermix or intertwine by weaving; to interlace.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb weave together into a fabric or design

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Examples

  • I am not trying to inweave you into being the fifty-first State.

    Men, Missiles and Misunderstandings 1960

  • And thou, Nature! surround him with mountains, cliffs, and seas; lull him with golden dawns and crimson eves; inweave him in thy magic circle of azure days and starry nights; O mother Nature -- closely embrace the

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • What attachments to the homestead shall thus inweave themselves about the hearts of those whose interests and life are cast with it -- and still more, of those who go forth from it, by taste, inclination, or bias, into the more bustling centres of competition and trade!

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Finally when this, and this alone, could have induced a genuine Poet to inweave in a poem of the loftiest style, and on subjects the loftiest and of most universal interest, such minute matters of fact, (not unlike those furnished for the obituary of a magazine by the friends of some obscure "ornament of society lately deceased" in some obscure town,) as

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • She is said to have cut off the head of Franquet d’Arras, a Burgundian, & I can inweave this fact.

    Letter 221 1797

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