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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Because there’s not even a morsel of darkness in Verity’s star persona, neither Lowen nor Jeremy know how twisted the real woman is.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
His ankle got caught beneath and twisted at a gruesome angle, and Thornton was carted off the field and diagnosed with a dislocation, effectively ending his season.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of twisted

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The nearly 289,000-acre forest is interspersed with private property, farms, communities and roads, creating a patchwork of public and private lands across southern Illinois.

— Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026
Inside, mannequins dressed in different looks from the collection were interspersed around the bookstore’s 7,000-square-foot space.

— Donna Kim, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of interspersed

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There weren’t many in Saturday’s lockdown defensive effort, but Grade-A scoring opportunities still emerged, the most dangerous arriving midway through the final period, with the score knotted 1-1.

— Janson Duench, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
The match entered the break knotted at 1-1 before the two sides traded goals just six minutes into the second half.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of knotted

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Those experiments could test what happens when quasiparticles are exchanged, or braided around one another.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
Elsewhere, the actual tablecloth material was dyed, cut into cloth, then braided and bound with leather to give PVC pants and a dress, with its sweet pintucked front panel, heft and structure.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2026

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With Indiana holding a 90-79 lead late in the final period, Wilson got tangled up on the hardwood with Fever guard Sophie Cunningham following a physical foul.

— Alejandro Avila , Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Pawlikowski’s mother and father, also named Zula and Wiktor, whose unmanageable love had kept them tangled and disentangled for decades, took their own lives in 1989, as the Cold War that had cast its chill upon their time was beginning to thaw.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of tangled

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Migration and crime Immigration has become increasingly intertwined in Ireland's political debate with concerns over housing, crime and rapidly changing demographics in a country that was drastically more homogeneous a generation ago.

— Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
That his music will be intertwined with the legacy of Bowman marks another.

— Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of intertwined

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Chiefs defensive back Jaden Hicks and Delane combined to make the tackle.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026
When the pulses met at an angle of 45 degrees, their electric fields combined in a way that made the resulting light field oscillate in all three spatial directions.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026

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