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INTERLACE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they interlace ... he / she / it interlaces
Past simple: interlaced
Past participle: interlaced
-ing form: interlacing
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 "interlace" 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 "interlace"):
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
Sense 2
Meaning:
Hold in a locking position
Example:
He locked his hands around her neck
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "interlace" is one way to...):
hold; take hold (have or hold in one's hands or grip)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Context examples:
He was standing with his arms folded, over against the wall, looking at the spikes on the top, with a sentimental expression, as if they were the interlacing boughs of trees that had shaded him in his youth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
