intertwine
/ɪntəˈtwʌɪn
/verb
1Twist or twine together: [with object]: a net made of cotton intertwined with other natural fibres [no object]: the coils intertwine with one another like strands of spaghetti...
- They can, for example, perform one kind of task at one end and another kind at the other; they can coil and curl and intertwine with other molecules, creating no end of features and properties.
- It's intertwined with ornamental gardens of bright flowers, rainforest species and native trees.
- But this was fuchsia, big as you please, escaped from Irish gardens to the roadsides to intertwine with native brambles in tangled hedgerows.
Synonyms
entwine, interweave, interlace, interthread, interwind, intertwist, twist, coil, twirl, ravel, lace, braid, plait, knit
rare convolute
1.1 [with object] Connect or link (two or more things) closely: as with most traditions, fact and fiction have become inextricably intertwined...
- In the commission to Delaroche, both historical and familial aspects were closely intertwined.
- It is interesting how nowadays the two worlds of pop music and politics are closely intertwined.
- Both tendencies are closely intertwined but they often contradict each other.
Derivatives
intertwinement
- The circus doctor (the figure of a poet if ever there was one; Yeats would know) articulates the sweet and rotten intertwinements, the rust and enormity circus life upholds.
- Tender, yet passionate, from the brush of their lips to the intertwinement of their tongues…
- Suddenly Jessica stopped in her track and pulled her arm out of its intertwinement with Michelle's.