inweave

American  

[in-weev] / ɪnˈwiv /

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.

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inweave British  

/ ɪnˈwiːv /

verb

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

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Other Word Forms

• uninwoven adjective

Etymology

Origin of inweave

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".

From BBC

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.”

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg