twine
verb/twaɪn/
/twaɪn/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they twine | /twaɪn/ /twaɪn/ |
| he / she / it twines | /twaɪnz/ /twaɪnz/ |
| past simple twined | /twaɪnd/ /twaɪnd/ |
| past participle twined | /twaɪnd/ /twaɪnd/ |
| -ing form twining | /ˈtwaɪnɪŋ/ /ˈtwaɪnɪŋ/ |
- twine (something) around/round/through/in something to wind or twist around something; to make something do this
- ivy twining around a tree trunk
- She twined her arms around my neck.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryTwine is used with these nouns as the subject:- ivy
Word OriginOld English twīn ‘thread, linen’, from the Germanic base of twi- ‘two’; related to Dutch twijn.
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