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ENLACE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they enlace ... he / she / it enlaces
Past simple: enlaced
Past participle: enlaced
-ing form: enlacing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spin, wind, or twist together
Example:
intertwined hearts
Synonyms:
enlace; entwine; interlace; intertwine; lace; twine
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "enlace" is one way to...):
distort; twine; twist (form into a spiral shape)
Verb group:
twine (make by twisting together or intertwining)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enlace"):
wind; wreathe (form into a wreath)
wattle (interlace to form wattle)
plash; pleach (interlace the shoots of)
knot; ravel; tangle (tangle or complicate)
splice (join by interweaving strands)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
