wreathe
verb (used with object)
to encircle or adorn with or as with a wreath.
have wreathed
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present perfectof wreathe.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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They have wreathed the seminary, the dormitories, the little chapel, in trees and shrubberies and lawns.
From Time Magazine Archive
But we never really feel at home there, though childhood may have wreathed round with tender memories old rooms and the quaint garden-places of happy unthinking hours.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William
Even now the sails are ready for the winds, and the sailors have wreathed the ships with garlands, as if for departure.
From The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) by Various
She would have wreathed his door, rubbed it with wolf's fat, and then sat as his wife by his hearth on the sheepskin.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah
Princess.—The bough which I, while wreathing thoughts, have wreathed, Soon finds a worthy resting-place.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
