Crossword clues for wreathe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wreathe \Wreathe\, v. t. [imp. Wreathed; p. p. Wreathed; Archaic Wreathen; p. pr. & vb. n. Wreathing.] [See Wreath, n.] [Written also wreath.]
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To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.
And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe.
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To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine.
The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular physiognomy was wreathed.
--Sir W. Scott.From his slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve Down dropped.
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To surround with anything twisted or convolved; to encircle; to infold.
Each wreathed in the other's arms.
--Shak.Dusk faces with withe silken turbants wreathed.
--Milton.And with thy winding ivy wreathes her lance.
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To twine or twist about; to surround; to encircle.
In the flowers that wreathe the sparkling bowl, Fell adders hiss.
--Prior.
Wreathe \Wreathe\, v. i.
To be intewoven or entwined; to twine together; as, a bower
of wreathing trees.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s (transitive), a back-formation from wrethen, Middle English past participle of writhe. Intransitive sense from 1580s. Related: Wreathed; wreathing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To twist, curl or entwine something into a shape similar to a wreath 2 (context transitive English) To form a wreathlike shape around something 3 (context intransitive English) To curl, writhe or spiral in the form of a wreath 4 (context obsolete English) To turn violently aside or around; to wrench.
WordNet
Usage examples of "wreathe".
The moss-green slope is clouded blue with ageratum and wreathed with small white roses, golden-eyed--common weeds of a glorious land.
The first blue bolt missed, but the second caught Deif in the stomach, wreathing him in azure energy.
Already the tree-covered crest of Morne Diablotin was wreathed in mist and dense fog as the sun slowly sank into the sea.
Tall, skeletal, wreathed in glimmering rags, the ectoplasm emerged from the tunnel mouth.
Hazard began, and the electrokinetic shook his head, the ghost of a smile wreathing his mouth.
Without any further urging, he took tight hold of his twin, and bucked most energetically, until finally, suddenly, he shuddered all over and threw his head back, his face wreathed with a joyous grin.
As Father Ralph parked his car and walked across the lawn, the maid waited on the front veranda, her freckled face wreathed in smiles.
Svengali and Gecko made such lovely music that everybody was sobered and athirst again, and the punchbowl, wreathed with holly and mistletoe, was placed in the middle of the table, and clean glasses set all round it.
There, the garlands wreathed around the columns of the hall--there, gleamed still and frequent the marble statue--there, amidst peals of jocund laughter, rose the music and the lay.
From the panorama of these ten mischanced years the face of Ben Jope shone out as in a halo, wreathed with good-natured smiles.
So he welcomed Arthur, his round face wreathed in jowly grins, right hand raised in friendship, left hand grasping the dagger behind his back.
Sergeant-major Koa was seated against a vertical brace, his brown face wreathed in a grin as he waited for his new officer.
Leaving her on the marble bench, with its carvings of pheasants and peafowl and flowers that had not blossomed here in ten summers, Ingold bundled the horrible kill into one of the hempen sacks he habitually carried, and hung the thing from the branch of a sycamore dying at the edge of the slunch, wreathed in such spells as would keep rats and carrion feeders at bay until they could collect it on their outward journey.
The rain had slackened to a kind of misty drizzle wreathing down among the trees.
Thus Sooey Wan, his idol face wreathed in a smile that indicated his entire satisfaction with the world as at that moment constituted.