intervolve

English

Etymology

From Latin inter (between), from volvere (to roll).

Verb

intervolve (third-person singular simple present intervolves, present participle intervolving, simple past and past participle intervolved)

  1. (rare) To involve one with another.
  2. (rare) To twist or coil together.
    • 1850. Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter
      A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight.
  • intervolve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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