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)
- (rare) To involve one with another.
- (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.
- 1850. Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter
Related terms
- intervolution
- intervolve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.