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/ˌɪntərwˈoʊvən/ Listen

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."

interwoven, interwove v. Imp. & p. p. of interweave.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Star Hunter • Andre Alice Norton

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— English Embroidered Bookbindings • Cyril James Humphries Davenport

... more, came ships, while others followed. Feeling their way among unsounded bars, Heaping their freights upon the groaning wharf-heads, Filling their holds with turpentines and tars, Until the little twisting streets all vanished Into a blur of interwoven spars. ...

— Carolina Chansons - Legends of the Low Country • DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen

... given to the differences regarding the League and the Covenant, the record would be incomplete if the other subjects were omitted. In fact nearly all of these matters of difference are more or less interwoven and have a collateral, if not a direct, bearing upon one another. They all contributed in affecting the attitude of President Wilson toward the advice that I felt it my duty to volunteer, an attitude ...

— The Peace Negotiations • Robert Lansing

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— Franklin Kane • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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