Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Preterit and past participle of interwind.
  • To wound mutually.

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Examples

  • It seemed as if all local varieties of trees and vines had conspired to weave the leafy roof -- maples, big madronos and laurels, and lofty tan-bark oaks, scaled and wrapped and interwound with wild grape and flaming poison oak.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • Fate takes strange turns indeed, and if there is one concept that Tolkien tried to convey it was to preserve and amplify the old theory of courage interwound with fate present in the North country myths…the importance of having done right even if defeated, and that fate favors those who do right despite long odds.

    Firedoglake » FDL Late Nite: Who’s Your Hero? 2006

  • At her feet lay a tangled heap of unravelled wool that had kinked and interwound upon itself in an attempt to resume the knotted configurations of its former state.

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

  • It seemed as if all local varieties of trees and vines had conspired to weave the leafy roof -- maples, big madronos and laurels, and lofty tan-bark oaks, scaled and wrapped and interwound with wild grape and flaming poison oak.

    Chapter 22 1913

  • The fun and pleasure of the world are so interwound with the sex-dependence of women upon men that women are forced to court "attentions," when not really desirous of anything but amusement; and, as we force the association of the sexes on this plane, so we restrict it on a more wholesome one.

    Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution 1898

  • And this temple, with its rights, is so closely interwound with the services of subject woman, its altar so demands her ceaseless sacrifices, that we find it impossible to conceive of any other basis of human living.

    Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution 1898

  • Those are ineradicable scenes; pictures of my youth, interwound with me.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Aklis, and these alternately interwound before and about him, and were even as a glittering armour of emerald plates, warding from him the assaults of the host; and lo! he flew, and the battle followed him over blazing cities and lands on fire with the slanting hail of sparkles.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Aklis, and these alternately interwound before and about him, and were even as a glittering armour of emerald plates, warding from him the assaults of the host; and lo! he flew, and the battle followed him over blazing cities and lands on fire with the slanting hail of sparkles.

    The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • Vernon did so until the plastic vision interwound with reality alarmingly.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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