MEANING
1. To combine strands or materials by weaving them into one structure.
2. To combine separate stories, ideas, or other elements so that they form a connected whole.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- interweave fibers
- interwoven strands
On the page
She interwove dark fibers with the pale thread.
The roots interwove so tightly that the old wall seemed held inside them.
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Word forms
- Base
- interweave
- Past tense
- interwove or interweaved
- Past participle
- interwoven or interweaved
- Present participle
- interweaving
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- interweave
- Present continuous
- am/is/are interweaving
- Present perfect
- have/has interwoven or interweaved
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been interweaving
- Past
- interwove or interweaved
- Past continuous
- was/were interweaving
- Past perfect
- had interwoven or interweaved
- Past perfect continuous
- had been interweaving
- Future
- will interweave
- Future continuous
- will be interweaving
- Future perfect
- will have interwoven or interweaved
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been interweaving
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: interweave; interweaves; interwove or interweaved; interwoven or interweaved; interweaving Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: interweaves.
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