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inweave

[ in-weev ]

verb (used with object)

, in·wove or in·weaved, in·wo·ven or in·wove or in·weaved, in·weav·ing.
  1. to weave in or together.
  2. to introduce into or as into a fabric in weaving.
  3. to combine or diversify with something woven weave in.


inweave

/ ɪnˈwiːv /

verb

  1. tr to weave together into or as if into a design, fabric, etc; interweave
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • unin·woven adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of inweave1

First recorded in 1570–80; in- 1 + weave
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Example Sentences

Coleridge wrote of Shakespeare's imagination "kindling like a meteor... one sentence begetting the next naturally... the meaning all inwoven".

From BBC

Here again is the inevitable Maria, but so inwoven with John, that Lord Coke’s legal maxim could not touch the case.

But if I knew, my silken friend, That an old man should wear thee, I The coarsest worsted would inweave, Thy finest silk for dog-grass leave, And all thy knots with nettles tie.”

And only inwoven, as it were, into the argument of the piece, are its pretty parts, used much as the jewellery of a fair woman.

This occurrence was quickly embellished and inwoven by legend, and great uncertainty still prevails with regard to several important points.

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