interwind

[ in-ter-wahynd ]

verb (used with or without object)

, in·ter·wound or (Rare) in·ter·wind·ed; in·ter·wind·ing.

1. to wind together; intertwine.

Word History and Origins

Origin of interwind¹

First recorded in 1685–95; inter- + wind ²

Example Sentences

She had heard from her cousin in Cape Town that Lawless was in Africa; and so she came to Africa to find him, with some vague idea in her mind that they might possibly pick up the dropped strands of their lives and interwind them anew.

From Project Gutenberg

The pike out of Buckville was good for a few miles only, and then came almost impassable stretches of unworked roads before connecting with those beautiful highways which wind and interwind through the creamier centers of the State—a condition that did not invite motorists.

From Project Gutenberg

Should the moon shine out from the charging clouds, then earth has not anything to show more fair; the broad track of light looks like an immeasurable river peopled by fiery serpents that dart and writhe and interwind, until the eye aches with gazing on them.

From Project Gutenberg

Circumstances will often interwind with the moods of simply irritated men.

From Project Gutenberg

Circumstances will often interwind with the moods of simply irritated men.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• convolute
• entwine
• interlace
• interweave
• mesh
• tangle
• weave