English Dictionary

wreathe

/ɹiːð/

verb

(transitive) To twist, curl or entwine something into a shape similar to a wreath. / (transitive) To form a wreathlike shape around something.

She wove flowers together to wreathe a beautiful crown.

意味（1）

(transitive) To twist, curl or entwine something into a shape similar to a wreath.

You do not love Maria; Longaville

Did never sonnet for her sake compile,

Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart

You do not love Maria; Longaville Did never sonnet for her sake compile, Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart His loving bosom to keep down his heart.

意味（2）

(transitive) To form a wreathlike shape around something.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea / By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown / Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To curl, writhe or spiral in the form of a wreath.

I unsealed the vial mystical,

I outpoured the liquid thing,

And while the smoke came wreathing out,

I unsealed the vial mystical, I outpoured the liquid thing, And while the smoke came wreathing out, I stood unshuddering.

意味（4）

(obsolete) To turn violently aside or around; to wrench.

from so heauie sight his head did wreath, / Accusing fortune, and too cruell fate […].