weave
/wiːv/ verb C1- To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. · This loom weaves yarn into cloth.
- To spin a cocoon or a web. · Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
- To unite by close connection or intermixture.
- To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate. · to weave the plot of a story
He/she/it weaves · Past wove · Past participle woven · -ing form weaving
Verb forms
- Base form
- weave
- He/she/it
- weaves
- Past
- wove
- Past participle
- woven
- -ing form
- weaving
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
From the library
Over these dark and sombre chairs were thrown splendid stuffs, dyed beneath Persia’s sun, or woven by the fingers of the women of Calcutta or of Chandernagor.
Oh, Marilla, ‘what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.’ That is poetry, but it is true.
She was a lithe, dark-eyed woman in a wonderful gown of shimmering gray stuff like woven moonbeams, with gems on her neck and in her dark hair.
He wove his plot with remarkable cunning."
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