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braided
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | interweave |
| Synonyms: | complect, cue, entwine, interknit, interlace, intertwine, lace, mesh, pigtail, plait, ravel, twine, twist, weave |
| Antonyms: | unbraid |
| Main Entry: | twisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked |
| Synonyms: | awry, bent, braided, contorted, curled, gnarled, tangled, twined, twisting, wrenched |
| Antonyms: | even, straight |
| Main Entry: | twisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knotty |
| Synonyms: | awry, bent, braided, coiled, complicated, contorted, convoluted, crooked, curled, gnarled, intricate, involved, knurly, perverted, tangled, tortile, tortuous, wound, wry |
| Antonyms: | untwisted |
| Main Entry: | embroider |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add fancy stitching, adornment |
| Synonyms: | beautify, bedeck, braid, color, cross-stitch, deck, decorate, embellish, fix up, garnish, gild, gussy up, knit, ornament, pattern, quilt, spruce up, stitch, weave pattern, work |
| Main Entry: | entwine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | twist around |
| Synonyms: | braid, coil, corkscrew, curl, embrace, encircle, enmesh, entangle, interlace, interplait, intertwine, interweave, knit, lace, plait, spiral, surround, twine, weave, wind, wreathe |
| Antonyms: | unravel, untwist, unwind |
| Main Entry: | intertwine/interweave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | twist around |
| Synonyms: | associate, braid, connect, convolute, crisscross, cross, entwine, interknit, interlace, intertwist, intervolve, interwind, interwreathe, link, mesh, network, relate, reticulate, tangle, tat, weave |
| Antonyms: | untwine, untwist |
| Main Entry: | loop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | circle, spiral |
| Synonyms: | arc, arch, begird, bend, bow, braid, coil, compass, connect, crook, curl, curve, curve around, encircle, encompass, fold, gird, girdle, join, knot, ring, roll, surround, tie together, turn, twist, wind around |
| Antonyms: | line |
| Main Entry: | mix |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | combine, join |
| Synonyms: | admix, adulterate, alloy, amalgamate, associate, blend, braid, coalesce, commingle, commix, compound, conjoin, cross, embody, fuse, hybridize, incorporate, infiltrate, infuse, instill, interbreed, intermingle, interweave, jumble, knead, link, lump, make up, merge, mingle, mix up, put together, saturate, stir, suffuse, synthesize, tangle, transfuse, unite, weave, work in |
| Notes: | in a mixture, the combined elements lose their individual identities and are fused, blended, or compounded in the result; in a mix, the elements, though combined, retain their individual identities |
| Antonyms: | detach, disconnect, divide, remove, separate, sever, unmix |
| Main Entry: | splice |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | join, interweave |
| Synonyms: | braid, entwine, graft, hitch, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, knit, marry, mate, mesh, plait, tie, unite, weave, wed, yoke |
| Notes: | a graft is one thing attached to another by insertion or implantation so it becomes part of it; a splice is the joining of two things end-to-end to make a new whole |
| Antonyms: | divide, separate, sever |
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