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verb

interweave v. t. (past interwove; past part. interwoven; pres. part. interweaving)

To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven. "Under the hospitable covert nigh Of trees thick interwoven."

To intermingle; to unite intimately; to connect closely; as, to interweave truth with falsehood. "Words interwove with sighs found out their way."

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Etymology of 'Interweave'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... in a deep dissimulation of his dependence on them. Waymarsh only to a slighter degree belongs, in the whole business, less to my subject than to my treatment of it; the interesting proof, in these connexions, being that one has but to take one's subject for the stuff of drama to interweave with enthusiasm as ...

— The Ambassadors • Henry James

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— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

... above all, the Holy Scriptures. Never put down your Breviary, but to take up your Bible. Saturate yourself with its words and its spirit. All the best things that are to be found in modern literature are simple paraphrases of Holy Writ. And interweave all your sentences with the Sacred Text. All the temporal prosperity of England comes from the use of the Bible, all its spiritual raggedness and nakedness from its misuse. They made it a fetish. And their commentators are proving, or rather trying to prove, that it is only a little wax and pasteboard—only ...

— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan

... I endeavour to interweave cloud-forms and sky-tints with words and images. But as all this, except for the noise of wind and water, runs off without a sound, I really need some inner harmony to keep my ear in tune; and this is only possible by my confidence in you and in what you do and value. Therefore, ...

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... birds, the animals, all different. The green tidiness and culture of England here gives way to a wild and rugged savageness of beauty. Every tree bursts forth with flowers; wild vines and creepers execute delirious gambols, and weave and interweave in interminable labyrinths. Yet here, in the great sandy plains back of our house, there is a constant wondering sense of beauty in the wild, wonderful growths of nature. First of all, the pines—high as ...

— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe

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