twine
/twaɪn/ verb C2- To weave together.
- To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
- To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
- To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
- To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
- To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally. · Many plants twine.
He/she/it twines · Past twined · Past participle twined · -ing form twining
Verb forms
- Base form
- twine
- He/she/it
- twines
- Past
- twined
- Past participle
- twined
- -ing form
- twining
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So he walked forward to the tree, but just as he came under the first branches they bent down and twined around him, and the next minute he was raised from the ground and flung headlong among his fellow travelers.
The whole place was turned upside down, drawers burst open, and presses ransacked, with the result that an odd volume of Pope’s ‘Homer,’ two plated candlesticks, an ivory letter-weight, a small oak barometer, and a ball of twine are all that have vanished.”
Andrea had not spoken without cause of the pretty rooms looking out upon the court of the Bell Hotel, which with its triple galleries like those of a theatre, with the jessamine and clematis twining round the light columns, forms one of the prettiest entrances to an inn that you can imagine.
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