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Definition of wreathe in English: wreatheverb riːðrið [with object]1Cover, surround, or encircle (something) he sits wreathed in smoke Example sentencesExamples - Ben sat at the keyboard composing furiously, his face wreathed with an angelic smile.
- Instead, Jones was wreathed in smiles which gave way to a brief cry as she stopped in front of her mother, also Marion, and other members of the family who had travelled to Sydney.
- The eruption produced a cloud of steam and ash that wreathed the 3,000 ft Stromboli mountain and a tidal wave that rocked ships in ports more than 100 miles away.
- Madeira's is a mountainous interior, mysteriously wreathed by a cover of clouds.
- I can't imagine anyone not being wreathed in smiles after such an episode.
- A sharp knock in the morning and steaming hot tea would wake us up to another glorious day - the sun emerging from behind mist wreathed hills.
- The other man's jowly face was wreathed in smiles.
- Everyone was wreathed in smiles and freedom hung about the air like fresh morning mist.
- She had a gentle smile on her face and was wreathed with light from behind, giving her an earth-real glow.
- The scenery around Loch Linnhe is normally magnificent at this time of year, but last week the gold and russet-brown colours of the Lochaber hills were hidden by the low clouds which wreathed Fort William in grey.
- He could feel a little air rushing past him, and as the final countdown commenced, his face was wreathed in an angelic smile.
- Holmes was sitting wreathed in tobacco smoke and looked up.
- The bungalow inside is wreathed in smoke, great huge clouds of it, seemingly static around it.
- The blue haze of burning incense wreathed the dragon-created roofs of the Cheng Doon Teng temple.
- Rock Pigeons swirled around occasionally, and a rainbow wreathed the feet of the magnificent bronze atop a fountain.
- Hampden, meanwhile, was eerily wreathed in freezing fog but neither the elements nor the task ahead of him seemed to cow Smith's spirits.
- His tanned face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.
- Today, however, fog wreathed the tiny islet, and covered the sand and pebbles at his feet with beadlets of moisture.
- He agreed, a huge smile wreathing his face as he walked the few paces over to the other side of his room.
- Earlier in the day, Southampton Water was wreathed in smoky fog, forcing the crew to rely on years of hard-won experience to get their passengers safely across.
Synonyms festoon, garland, drape, cover, envelop, array, bedeck, deck, decorate, ornament, adorn - 1.1literary with object and adverbial of direction Twist or entwine (something flexible) round or over something.
shall I once more wreathe my arms about Antonio's neck? Example sentencesExamples - Dried flowers wreathed around a small silver-hilted dagger carved into the shape of a dragon, and several tarot cards showed their faces next to it.
- She climbed upon its back, wreathing flowers around its horns.
- One plant had wreathed itself round a statue of Vertumnus, which was thus quite veiled and shrouded in a drapery of hanging foliage, so happily arranged that it might have served a sculptor for a study.
- 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction (especially of smoke) move with a curling motion.
he watched the smoke wreathe into the night air Example sentencesExamples - Her voice chilled him farther than her hands did, hissing like dried ice and dying smoke as it wreathed over his head and sucked into his mouth and clung damp to his lungs.
- When she looked at the fire, it was blurred, and the smoke wreathed lazily; she stared intently at that smoke, pretending she could see each and every particle, that she was as small as they were.
- We headed back along Lake Cuber as cloud came wreathing among the mountain tops, bringing with it fierce rain.
Synonyms spiral, coil, loop, gyrate, wind, curl, twist, twist and turn, corkscrew, snake, curve, meander, zigzag
2Form (flowers, leaves, or stems) into a wreath. Example sentencesExamples - In a bower in the Duke of Normandys garden at Bayeux Princess Adela and her maidens are singing and wreathing flowers.
- In the boughs of the trees more cupids are wreathing flowers and fruit.
Phrases his tanned face was wreathed in smiles Example sentencesExamples - She turned to Lizzy, all wreathed in smiles, and continued.
- At the checkout, there was an Asian girl wreathed in smiles.
- She had lively dark brown eyes, and her face was wreathed in smiles.
- I can't imagine anyone not being wreathed in smiles after such an episode.
- It worked, too, and we parted wreathed in smiles.
- The world's second richest man is wreathed in smiles.
- Reid's face wreathed in smiles at this morning's meeting.
- Immediately, all would be wreathed in smiles.
- They grasped each others' hands and stood wreathed in smiles.
- Georgiana said with her face wreathed in smiles.
Origin Mid 16th century: partly a back-formation from archaic wrethen, past participle of writhe, reinforced by wreath. wrong from Old English: An Old English word from Old Norse rangr ‘awry, unjust’, which first meant ‘crooked, curved, or twisted’ and is related to wring (Old English). Until the 17th century the wr- would have been pronounced, and there was obviously something about the sound that suggested the idea of twisting—many English words beginning with wr-, such as wrist, writhe, and wreathe (all OE), contain the notion. Although to get the wrong end of the stick now means ‘to misunderstand something’, the original sense seems to have been ‘to come off worse’. The example in The Swell's Night Guide, a guide to London low life published in 1846, gives an idea of what was wrong with the ‘wrong end’: ‘Which of us had hold of the crappy…end of the stick?’ The proverb two wrongs don't make a right dates from the late 18th century. The Hungarian-born psychiatrist Thomas Szasz summed up the feelings of many when he said in 1973: ‘Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.’
Rhymes bequeath, breathe, enwreathe, Meath, seethe, sheathe, teethe Definition of wreathe in US English: wreatheverbrēT͟Hrið [with object]1Cover, surround, or encircle (something) he sits wreathed in smoke Example sentencesExamples - She had a gentle smile on her face and was wreathed with light from behind, giving her an earth-real glow.
- He could feel a little air rushing past him, and as the final countdown commenced, his face was wreathed in an angelic smile.
- Ben sat at the keyboard composing furiously, his face wreathed with an angelic smile.
- His tanned face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.
- Rock Pigeons swirled around occasionally, and a rainbow wreathed the feet of the magnificent bronze atop a fountain.
- Hampden, meanwhile, was eerily wreathed in freezing fog but neither the elements nor the task ahead of him seemed to cow Smith's spirits.
- He agreed, a huge smile wreathing his face as he walked the few paces over to the other side of his room.
- The bungalow inside is wreathed in smoke, great huge clouds of it, seemingly static around it.
- Instead, Jones was wreathed in smiles which gave way to a brief cry as she stopped in front of her mother, also Marion, and other members of the family who had travelled to Sydney.
- The eruption produced a cloud of steam and ash that wreathed the 3,000 ft Stromboli mountain and a tidal wave that rocked ships in ports more than 100 miles away.
- Holmes was sitting wreathed in tobacco smoke and looked up.
- A sharp knock in the morning and steaming hot tea would wake us up to another glorious day - the sun emerging from behind mist wreathed hills.
- Madeira's is a mountainous interior, mysteriously wreathed by a cover of clouds.
- The other man's jowly face was wreathed in smiles.
- The scenery around Loch Linnhe is normally magnificent at this time of year, but last week the gold and russet-brown colours of the Lochaber hills were hidden by the low clouds which wreathed Fort William in grey.
- Everyone was wreathed in smiles and freedom hung about the air like fresh morning mist.
- The blue haze of burning incense wreathed the dragon-created roofs of the Cheng Doon Teng temple.
- Today, however, fog wreathed the tiny islet, and covered the sand and pebbles at his feet with beadlets of moisture.
- Earlier in the day, Southampton Water was wreathed in smoky fog, forcing the crew to rely on years of hard-won experience to get their passengers safely across.
- I can't imagine anyone not being wreathed in smiles after such an episode.
Synonyms festoon, garland, drape, cover, envelop, array, bedeck, deck, decorate, ornament, adorn - 1.1literary Twist or entwine (something flexible) around or over something.
shall I once more wreathe my arms about Antonio's neck? Example sentencesExamples - One plant had wreathed itself round a statue of Vertumnus, which was thus quite veiled and shrouded in a drapery of hanging foliage, so happily arranged that it might have served a sculptor for a study.
- She climbed upon its back, wreathing flowers around its horns.
- Dried flowers wreathed around a small silver-hilted dagger carved into the shape of a dragon, and several tarot cards showed their faces next to it.
- 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction (especially of smoke) move with a curling motion.
he watched the smoke wreathe into the night air Example sentencesExamples - Her voice chilled him farther than her hands did, hissing like dried ice and dying smoke as it wreathed over his head and sucked into his mouth and clung damp to his lungs.
- We headed back along Lake Cuber as cloud came wreathing among the mountain tops, bringing with it fierce rain.
- When she looked at the fire, it was blurred, and the smoke wreathed lazily; she stared intently at that smoke, pretending she could see each and every particle, that she was as small as they were.
Synonyms spiral, coil, loop, gyrate, wind, curl, twist, twist and turn, corkscrew, snake, curve, meander, zigzag
2Form (flowers, leaves, or stems) into a wreath. Example sentencesExamples - In the boughs of the trees more cupids are wreathing flowers and fruit.
- In a bower in the Duke of Normandys garden at Bayeux Princess Adela and her maidens are singing and wreathing flowers.
Phrases his tanned face was wreathed in smiles Example sentencesExamples - The world's second richest man is wreathed in smiles.
- Reid's face wreathed in smiles at this morning's meeting.
- I can't imagine anyone not being wreathed in smiles after such an episode.
- She had lively dark brown eyes, and her face was wreathed in smiles.
- She turned to Lizzy, all wreathed in smiles, and continued.
- Immediately, all would be wreathed in smiles.
- At the checkout, there was an Asian girl wreathed in smiles.
- Georgiana said with her face wreathed in smiles.
- It worked, too, and we parted wreathed in smiles.
- They grasped each others' hands and stood wreathed in smiles.
Origin Mid 16th century: partly a back-formation from archaic wrethen, past participle of writhe, reinforced by wreath. |