interweave
Americanverb (used with object)
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interweaves,
present (3rd person singular)
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interweaved,
past participle, past
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interwove,
past
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interwoven,
past participle
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interweaving
present participle
verb (used without object)
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interweaves,
present (3rd person singular)
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interweaved,
past participle, past
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interwove,
past
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interwoven,
past participle
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interweaving
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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interweavesimple
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interweavessimple
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have interweavedperfect
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have interwovenperfect
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has interweavedperfect
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has interwovenperfect
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am interweavingprogressive
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are interweavingprogressive
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is interweavingprogressive
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have been interweavingperfect progressive
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has been interweavingperfect progressive
Past
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interweavedsimple
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interwovesimple
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had interweavedperfect
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had interwovenperfect
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was interweavingprogressive
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were interweavingprogressive
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had been interweavingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of interweave
Example Sentences
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"Nobody really has ever tried to interweave an actual plot story into a dogfight, and we were trying to do that."
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
The tight, tree-lined fairways interweave with a treasure trove of archaeological remnants.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Bark scars on trees in Ma’amtagila territory interweave their people today with prior generations.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
Solar flares arise within the sun’s roiling soup of plasma when charged particles thrash around one another to form intense magnetic field lines that can tangle and interweave.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 26, 2023
The troubling interweave of class and race appeared to him in nearly every discussion.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Ms. Smialek interweaves Edgeworth’s story with economic debates of her time, which remain debates in ours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
His remix of John Summit’s “Crystallized feat. Inéz” has garnered praise, while “Fibonacci Pt. 2,” his latest in a set of math-inspired releases, interweaves the melodic with the heavy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
The Hack is a seven-part series that interweaves two real-life stories.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
Lee interweaves her time-travel narrative with explorations of the “inexplicable connections through time and space, the intrinsic cost of sacrifice, and the infinite metaphysical paradox of loving and letting go.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
Thucydides tells us frankly that the speeches which he interweaves with his narrative were his own composition.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
Club president Raj Khosla spoke about the "magnificent scenic beauty" and "uniqueness of a wonderful course" interweaved with monuments.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Collins peppers the new concert with personal stories interweaved with ones about The Town Hall, which is celebrating its centennial this year.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
I preferred walking; and though my shoes and the hem of my gown were covered with prickles and thorns, which interweaved themselves in an extraordinary manner through a satin dress, I enjoyed the walk amazingly.
From Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Miss Emma Roberts
Dangers will be averted; bewildering mazes will show themselves to be interlaced and interweaved with mercy.
From The Words of Jesus by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
Her fingers interweaved with his, her warm little palm stroked the rough back of his hand.
From The Hunted Woman by James Oliver Curwood
In framing Steve McQueen’s historical depiction of Germany’s eight-month-long bombing campaign, cinematographer Yorick Le Saux beautifully interwove George’s emotional arc with the catastrophic enormity of war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
Mullins interwove perspectives from three young transgender people in Florida, Texas and Illinois, along with mental health providers, advocates and allies.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
The way he interpreted it, and interwove it with his jazz background, ensured that his work would contain, like Ellington’s, “the sound of our experience, the sound of the Negro experience.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2021
Flynn simply — or, rather, complexly — interwove the narratives: Nick’s in the present, revealing more of his sins as he tracks the treasure-hunt clues, and Amy’s in the past, through her diary.
From Time ● Sep. 30, 2014
Something significant had happened last night, a thread that interwove between her, the Shetani, and that strange feeling in her feet, but she couldn’t understand the connection.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
The stripes are narrower and there are interwoven diagonal lines, but this is still very definitely a Real Betis shirt - one of the most recognisable designs in European football.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Cyril Aris directs this character-driven romantic drama that follows the interwoven lives of a young man and woman in conflict-ridden Lebanon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
With 24 main characters interwoven around the town of Nashville, home of country music and intersecting political undercurrents, the film tries to make sense of the chaos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time — the interwoven fabric of space and time at the heart of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026
We were surrounded by love—the eclectic, multicultural Obama kind and the anchoring Robinsons-from-the-South-Side kind, all of it now interwoven visibly, pew to pew, inside the church.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
"It requires a careful interweaving of data from modern organisms, of which our understanding is necessarily far deeper, and knowledge of these living organisms' genealogy relative to fossil forms," he said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Palantir’s involvement is just one of countless instances across U.S. history interweaving industry and national defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
"She holds this precious story with great care and tells it with dignity, interweaving the history of transplant surgery seamlessly."
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2025
It was with my editor, Damian Rodriguez, a process of interweaving and braiding those three strands.
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
They were in the orchard now, in the dense interweaving of orange trees, and Richard felt a strangeness overcome him.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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