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wreathing en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Having a pattern that wreathes.
    • The ground rose on each side like a wall, but hung with natural tapestry—the creeping plants which in the South take such graceful and wreathing forms in their foliage. 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 22:

Forms

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most wreathing Degree=Sup lexicographic
more wreathing Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

wreathingly

wreathing en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The motion or pattern of something that wreaths.
    • To have demolished and rebuilt the walls, would have been a very costly expedient, and as the least of two evils, the painter's brush was resorted to; here and there however, above some of the windows, the black wreathings of the smoke are still discernible through the white covering. 1823, John Morison Duncan, Duncan's Travels, published 2007, page 256:

Forms

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wreathings Number=Plur lexicographic

wreathing en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of wreath
    form of wreath
  2. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of wreathe
    form of wreathe