weave
/wiːv/ verb C2- To move by turning and twisting. · The drunk weaved into another bar.
- To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side. · The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
- To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress.
He/she/it weaves · Past weaved · Past participle weaved · -ing form weaving
Verb forms
- Base form
- weave
- He/she/it
- weaves
- Past
- weaved
- Past participle
- weaved
- -ing form
- weaving
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They never meant to do any more--the Bandar-log never mean anything at all; but one of them invented what seemed to him a brilliant idea, and he told all the others that Mowgli would be a useful person to keep in the tribe, because he could weave sticks together for protection from the wind; so, if they caught him, they could make him teach them.
Singer and tailor am I-- Doubled the joys that I know-- Proud of my lilt to the sky, Proud of the house that I sew-- Over and under, so weave I my music--so weave I the house that I sew.
Oh, Marilla, ‘what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.’ That is poetry, but it is true.
Shady fairies weave a house;
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