Other forms: interweaving, interweaves, interweaved
To interweave is to weave two things together so they cannot be pulled apart. Interweave the strands.
It is used of threads and of stories, and the second is now the commoner. To interweave two narratives well means each explains the other rather than merely alternating.
1verbinterweaveTo weave two things together so they cannot be pulled apart.
“The novel interweaves three families over ninety years.”
interweave is a weaving.
Also accepted in games: intertwine
Proto-Indo-European
*ters-
Vulgar Latin
*interrāre — to put in earth
Old French
enterrer
Middle English
enteren
English
inter
English, today
interweave
From inter- + weave. inter comes from Middle English enteren, borrowed from Old French enterrer, enterer, from Vulgar Latin interrāre (“to put in earth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA