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View definitions for wreathe

wreathe

verb as in crinkle

verb as in encircle

verb as in entwine

verb as in rumple

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Example Sentences

Ah, "fools and blind," you little know that you are making a garland of imperishable beauty to wreathe around His brow!

Examples are wreath (with th as in think), but to wreathe (with th as in then); house, but to house (with s pronounced like z).

Fifty paces below, a column of opal smoke had begun to wreathe and stretch a languid flag.

Taking out a little cigarette case, she lights a cigarette, and watches the puff's of smoke wreathe shout her and die away.

Most of such words are verbs, so distinguished from their cognate substantives, as wreathe from wreath.

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On this page you'll find 370 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wreathe, such as: convolute, convolve, corkscrew, fold, intertwine, and lap.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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