Word Meanings - CONVOLVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved. Milton. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONVOLVE)

• Entwine
• Lace
• convolve
• interlace
• weave
• Twist
• Contort
• complicate
• pervert
• distort
• wrest
• wreath
• wind
• encircle
• form
• insinuate
• unite
• interpenetrate

Related words: (words related to CONVOLVE)

• INTERLACE
  To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• CONTORTION
  A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• WEAVER
  A weaver bird. (more info) 1. One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. "Weavers of linen." P. Plowman.
• ENTWINEMENT
  A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.
• CONVOLVE
  To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved. Milton. (more info) Etym:
• WREATHLESS
  Destitute of a wreath.
• WREATHE
  1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular
• WEAVE
  1. To practice weaving; to work with a loom. 2. To become woven or interwoven.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• INTERLACEMENT
  The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced.
• WREATH-SHELL
  A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
• DISTORTIVE
  Causing distortion.
• TWISTER
  A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister,
• TWIST
  1. To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others. 2. To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form
• CONTORT
  To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.
• WRESTER
  One who wrests.
• SATIN WEAVE
  A style of weaving producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface.
• UNWEAVE
  To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• INTERWREATHE
  To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. Lovelace.
• INWREATHE
  Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton.
• WREST
  1. To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting. "The secret wrested from me." Milton. Our country's cause, That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand.