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INTERLACE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

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:

interlace; interlock; lock

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

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 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)

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