entwine
verb
: to twine together or around
: to become twisted or twined
entwine
verb [ T often passive ]
to twist something together or around something:
The picture captures the two lovers with their arms entwined.
entwine
verb [ T ]
to twist together or around something:
The old-fashioned porch was entwined with many creeping plants.
fig. In the old days, moviemaking was entwined with political and social life.
EXAMPLES of entwine
Politics became inseparably entwined with cultural or intellectual debates from the onset.
And it confirmed these as gendered processes, and ones where sexuality and gender are often deeply entwined.
Professionalization, regulation, atomization, the rescheduling of public/private distinctions are all powerful in themselves, but behind them, and entwined within them, lie structural transformations.
Ultimately the two societies, through confrontation and co-operation, remained more closely entwined than either would have cared or dared to admit.
And yet, his "enthusiastic" views are closely entwined with his ideas on history, moral philosophy, and the study of nature.
His head and body are entwined in white rope like a mask.
Their thinking was closely entwined with their struggle to recover from their melancholy.
He missed how closely these issues were entwined.
The reasons for this are not fully transparent, but they certainly lie entwined with other historical threads.
Electronic music culture is at least in conversation, if not inextricably entwined, with the legacy of modernist notions of authorship and authenticity.
In fact, the distinction between 'politics' and 'economics' is really misleading, because 'economics' are a political construct, and politics are inextricably entwined with economic factors.
Such human minutiae enrich and entwine our lives and form a part of their intrinsic worth.