cobweb
a web spun by a spider to entrap its prey.
a single thread spun by a spider.
something resembling a cobweb; anything finespun, flimsy, or insubstantial.
a network of plot or intrigue; an insidious snare.
cobwebs, confusion, indistinctness, or lack of order: I'm so tired my head is full of cobwebs.
to cover with or as with cobwebs: Spiders cobwebbed the cellar.
to confuse or muddle: Drunkenness cobwebbed his mind.
Origin of cobweb
1Words Nearby cobweb
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How to use cobweb in a sentence
The sun was setting, and he pointed to a cobweb glistening in a ray of light.
Raped by a Teacher: One Woman’s Tragic Past at the Horace Mann School | Abigail Pesta | September 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAbove it was a canopy of a deep-red cobweb, dotted with the prettiest little green flies that sparkled like precious stones.
Rudy and Babette | Hans Christian AndersenMan's passions at first are like a cobweb's thread, at last become like the thickest cable.
The cobbler of cobweb Corner was becoming dazed with happiness.
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls | VariousHe would brush her machinery aside like a cobweb, but that did not affect the chance of his recognition by Sonia.
The Art of Disappearing | John Talbot Smith
But—not 'in this connection,' in no connection—the utilitarian also thoroughly despises cobweb theories, as he terms them.
British Dictionary definitions for cobweb
/ (ˈkɒbˌwɛb) /
a web spun by certain spiders, esp those of the family Theridiidae, often found in the corners of disused rooms
a single thread of such a web
something like a cobweb, as in its flimsiness or ability to trap
Origin of cobweb
1Derived forms of cobweb
- cobwebbed, adjective
- cobwebby, adjective
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