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ENLACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enlace mean? 

ENLACE (verb)
  The verb ENLACE has 1 sense:

1. spin, wind, or twist togetherplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ENLACE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they enlace  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it enlaces  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: enlaced  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: enlaced  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: enlacing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Spin, wind, or twist together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

enlace; entwine; interlace; intertwine; lace; twine

Context example:

intertwined hearts

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

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

Verb group:

twine (make by twisting together or intertwining)

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

wind; wreathe (form into a wreath)

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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