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ENLACE

Dictionary entry overview: What does enlace mean?

• ENLACE (verb)
The verb ENLACE has 1 sense:

1. spin or twist together so as to form a cord

Familiarity information: ENLACE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ENLACE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Spin or twist together so as to form a cord

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

enlace; interlace; intertwine; lace; twine; entwine

Context examples:

intertwine the ribbons / Twine the threads into a rope

Hypernyms (to "enlace" is one way to...):

distort; twine; twist (form into a spiral shape)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enlace"):

wind; wreathe (form into a wreath)

fold (intertwine)

wattle (interlace to form wattle)

plash; pleach (interlace the shoots of)

knot; ravel; tangle (tangle or complicate)

splice (join by interweaving strands)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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