Wreathe: Definition and part of speech

Wreathe

  1. v. i. To be intewoven or entwined; to twine together; as, a bower of wreathing trees.
  2. n. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.
  3. n. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine.
  4. n. To surround with anything twisted or convolved; to encircle; to infold.
  5. n. To twine or twist about; to surround; to encircle.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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