inweave

[in-weev]

verb (used with object)

inwove, inweaved, inwoven, inwove, inweaved, inweaving. 

1. to weave in or together.

2. to introduce into or as into a fabric in weaving.

3. to combine or diversify with something woven weave in.

inweave

/ ɪnˈwiːv /

verb

1. (tr) to weave together into or as if into a design, fabric, etc; interweave

Other Word Forms

• uninwoven adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of inweave¹

First recorded in 1570–80; in- ¹ + weave

Example Sentences

Coleridge wrote of Shakespeare's imagination "kindling like a meteor... one sentence begetting the next naturally... the meaning all inwoven".

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Here again is the inevitable Maria, but so inwoven with John, that Lord Coke’s legal maxim could not touch the case.

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But if I knew, my silken friend, That an old man should wear thee, I The coarsest worsted would inweave, Thy finest silk for dog-grass leave, And all thy knots with nettles tie.”

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And only inwoven, as it were, into the argument of the piece, are its pretty parts, used much as the jewellery of a fair woman.

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This occurrence was quickly embellished and inwoven by legend, and great uncertainty still prevails with regard to several important points.

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