Entwine

//ɪnˈtwaɪn//

Synonyms for "entwine" (92 found)

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Translations

31 translations across 21 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • сплитам verb (twist or twine)

Carpathian Rusyn

3 entries
  • висукац verb (twist or twine)
  • скруцовац ше verb (twist or twine)
  • уплєсц verb (twist or twine)

Catalan

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  • enrinxar-se verb (twist or twine)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 纏繞 /缠绕 verb (twist or twine)

Czech

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  • obtočit verb (twist or twine)

Faroese

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  • ringja seg um verb (twist or twine)

Finnish

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  • kietoa verb (twist or twine)

French

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  • enlacer verb (twist or twine)

Galician

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  • entretecer verb (twist or twine)

German

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  • umranken verb (twist or twine)
  • umschlingen verb (twist or twine)

Ido

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  • interplektar verb (twist or twine)

Mongolian

1 entries
  • сүлжих verb (twist or twine)

Norman

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  • s'enlachi verb (twist or twine)

Norwegian

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  • flette verb (twist or twine)

Occitan

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  • trenar verb (twist or twine)

Polish

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  • oplatać verb (twist or twine)
  • przeplatać verb (twist or twine)
  • splatać verb (twist or twine)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • enclavinhar verb (twist or twine)
  • entrelaçar verb (twist or twine)

Romanian

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  • împleti verb (twist or twine)

Russian

3 entries
  • обвивать verb (twist or twine)
  • обхва́тывать verb (twist or twine)
  • сплетать verb (twist or twine)

Spanish

3 entries
  • enclavijar verb (twist or twine)
  • entrelazar verb (twist or twine)
  • entretejer verb (twist or twine)

Thai

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  • สาน verb (twist or twine)

Sample sentences

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"Broken by war, long baffled by the force / of fate, as fortune and their hopes decline, / the Danaan leaders build a monstrous horse, / huge as a hill, by Pallas' craft divine, / and cleft fir-timbers in the ribs entwine. / They feign it vowed for their return, so goes / the tale."

Source: tatoeba (6804490)

Then sire Anchises hastened to entwine / a massive goblet with a wreath, and vowed / libations to the gods, and poured the wine / and on the lofty stern invoked the powers divine: / "Great gods, whom Earth and Sea and Storms obey, / breathe fair, and waft us smoothly o'er the main."

Source: tatoeba (7209621)

Twilight, ascending slowly from the east, / Entwin'd in duskier wreaths her braided locks / O'er the fair front and radiant eyes of day; […]

Source: wiktionary

Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.