INTERWOVE Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

interwove

verb

variants also interweaved

past tense of interweave

as in twisted

to cause to twine about one another interweaved garlands of red and gold beads and wrapped them around the Christmas tree

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as in interspersed

to scatter or set here and there among other things the author artfully interweaves excerpts from soldiers' letters into his history of the Vietnam War

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as in knotted

to twist together into a usually confused mass in our play the kitten and I managed to interweave the skeins of yarn into a hopeless tangle

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Recent Examples of interwove That project, which interweaved Elizabethan dialogue with a contemporary setting, signaled another artistic pivot. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026

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But when people react negatively, someone must have twisted her words.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
The wife of friend Isaac Leonard Ellwood suggested that two wires twisted together would hold the nail in place better — and the inexpensive yet effective design stuck.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026

Definition of twisted

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Since 2017, Miller’s posts about players and prospects, primarily on X, have been increasingly interspersed with calls for followers to donate to charitable campaigns.

— Alex Andrejev, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Moments of great power are interspersed with long expository stretches of clangor and connivance.

— Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2026

Definition of interspersed

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This dress — also in the vibrant red associated with the World Cup champions’ jerseys — had a V-neck, short sleeves and a self-tie belt knotted at the hip, with a fuller skirt that opened at the front.

— Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 21 July 2026
That match was knotted 2-2 when Beckham drew a red card for kicking Diego Simeone and brought his side down to 10 men.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of knotted

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But soaking produce in water with a few teaspoons of baking soda mixed in can get fruit and veggies even cleaner and potentially remove leftover pesticide residue too.

— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2026
In Greater China, which includes the Hong Kong and Macao markets, the picture was mixed, with retail sales rising 9 percent on a stable store base, but wholesale replenishment orders described as modest.

— Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 21 July 2026

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June 21 – July 22 Money or trust could expose where comfort and control have gotten tangled.

— Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2026
Almost every 22-minute chapter here follows the same comfortably familiar outline, with the leads getting acclimated to a new universe, getting tangled up in a life-or-death showdown and then fleeing to the next one.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026

Definition of tangled

Verb

But the average couple have arguably become more intertwined.

— Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
These intertwined thematic threads—language and the body, social and political repression, and lines of flight towards liberation—coalesce in Cris Judar’s fiction.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026

Definition of intertwined

Verb

It was ruled as a spontaneous combustion, apparently because of the summer heat combined with gases escaping from decomposing film, sending flames some 100 feet into the air and killing a 13-year-old boy.

— Tim Page, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2026
To understand exactly why the separation worked, the researchers combined experiments with advanced computer modeling.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 25 July 2026

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