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interwreathe

/reeth/US // rið //UK // (riːð) //

互惠,互访,互惠互利,互换

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    wreathed; wreathed or wreath·en; wreath·ing.

    • : to encircle or adorn with or as with a wreath.
    • : to form as a wreath by twisting or twining.
    • : to surround in curving or curling masses or form.
    • : to envelop: a face wreathed in smiles.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    wreathed; wreathed or wreath·en; wreath·ing.

    • : to take the form of a wreath or wreaths.
    • : to move in curving or curling masses, as smoke.

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Examples

  • As the band thrashed away in a flame-wreathed venue, concert attendees could be seen dancing and raising devil horns on screens surrounding the stage.

  • Then it happened — Harrington, wreathed in Druidic smoke, hoisted his guitar above his head and pickaxed his instrument into the guts of the 12-foot mirror, shattering it into oblivion.

  • As I looked down the property’s main lawn, Opus 40 framed the majestic Overlook Mountain to the west, its peak wreathed in fog.

  • Ah, "fools and blind," you little know that you are making a garland of imperishable beauty to wreathe around His brow!

  • Examples are wreath (with th as in think), but to wreathe (with th as in then); house, but to house (with s pronounced like z).

  • Fifty paces below, a column of opal smoke had begun to wreathe and stretch a languid flag.

  • Taking out a little cigarette case, she lights a cigarette, and watches the puff's of smoke wreathe shout her and die away.

  • Most of such words are verbs, so distinguished from their cognate substantives, as wreathe from wreath.