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intercoil

intercoil verb: to coil together.

Verb

intercoil (third-person singular simple present intercoils, present participle intercoiling, simple past and past participle intercoiled)

  1. To coil together.
    • For a time nothing but eyes, and then he speaks of tentacles streaming out and parting the weed fronds this way and that. Then these things, growing larger, until at last the bottom was hidden by their intercoiling forms, and the tips of tentacles rose darkly here and there into the air above the...1896, H G Wells, The Sea Raiders

Forms of intercoil

third-person singular presentintercoils
present participleintercoiling
past participleintercoiled
pastintercoiled

Origin of intercoil

From inter- + coil.

Questions about intercoil

What does intercoil mean?
Intercoil means to coil together.
What part of speech is intercoil?
Intercoil is a verb.
What is the past tense of intercoil?
The past tense of intercoil is intercoiled.

Words near intercoil in the dictionary

  1. intercodons
  2. intercognition
  3. intercohesin
  4. intercohort
  5. intercohortal
  6. intercoil
  7. intercoiled
  8. intercoiling
  9. intercoilings
  10. intercoils
  11. intercollege

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