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Webster 1913 Edition


intervolve

inˊter-volve′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
intervolved
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
intervolving
.]
[Pref.
inter-
+ L.
volvere
,
volutum
, to roll.]
To involve one within another; to twist or coil together.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Intervolve

INTERVOLVE

,
Verb.
T.
intervolv'. [L. intervolvo; inter and volvo, to roll.] To involve one within another.

Definition 2024


intervolve

intervolve

English

Verb

intervolve (third-person singular simple present intervolves, present participle intervolving, simple past and past participle intervolved)

  1. (rare) To involve one with another.
  2. (rare) To twist or coil together.
    • 1850. Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter
      A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight.

Related terms

  • intervolve in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913