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bewoven

bewoven adjective: woven about; woven into or throughout; (by extension) pervasive.

Adjective

bewoven (comparative more bewoven, superlative most bewoven)

  1. Woven about; woven into or throughout; (by extension) pervasive
    • [...]; the sun could not be seen for overhanging growth, and even nature's tell-tale, the moss on the trees, thus shrouded in omnipresent gloom, failed to betoken direction in this bewoven, betwisted, betangled growth.1885, Outing, volume 7, page 255
    • I try to limn you in the brake / Bewoven greenly, as you may, / But only see the piles that slake / The slavering dark along the bay, [...]1947, Harriet Monroe, Poetry - Volume 70, Issue 6 - Page 322

Examples of bewoven in a sentence

  • The natural taste being the green, The bleating may not blaspheme the virtues of God Singing the praise in taste, may not the cloth bewoven; …1989, Bagar: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing - Volume 8
  • However, after five minutes, the trio settle into their bewoven spell-making, and there are no further developments.2003, High Fidelity News, Record, Review:
  • They have the swing of the saga-bewoven old-time bands.2008, Jazz Music, Volume 6, Issues 3-10

Forms of bewoven

comparativemore bewoven
superlativemost bewoven

Origin of bewoven

From be- (“about, around”) + woven.

Questions about bewoven

What does bewoven mean?
Bewoven means woven about; woven into or throughout; (by extension) pervasive.
How do you use bewoven in a sentence?
The natural taste being the green, The bleating may not blaspheme the virtues of God Singing the praise in taste, may not the cloth bewoven; …
What part of speech is bewoven?
Bewoven is an adjective.

Words near bewoven in the dictionary

  1. beworried
  2. beworries
  3. beworry
  4. beworrying
  5. bewound
  6. bewoven
  7. bewraid
  8. bewrap
  9. bewrapped
  10. bewrapping
  11. bewraps

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