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entwine

verb
/ɪnˈtwaɪn/UK/ɪnˈtwaɪn/US

Etymology

From en- + twine (verb).

  1. inherited from *dwisnós✻
  2. inherited from *twiznaz✻
  3. inherited from *twiʀn✻
  4. inherited from twīn
  5. inherited from twyn
  6. prefixed as entwine — “en + twine”

Definitions

  1. To twist or twine around something (or one another).

    • Twilight, ascending slowly from the east, / Entwin'd in duskier wreaths her braided locks / O'er the fair front and radiant eyes of day; […]
    • 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.
    • And with the story of the booking office, we have a fortune deeply entwined with the stations encasing them.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at entwine. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at entwine. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at entwine

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA