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intercoils

intercoils is the third-person singular simple present indicative of intercoil.

Meaning of intercoil

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

Questions about intercoils

What is intercoils the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Intercoils is the third-person singular simple present indicative of intercoil.

Words near intercoils in the dictionary

  1. intercohortal
  2. intercoil
  3. intercoiled
  4. intercoiling
  5. intercoilings
  6. intercoils
  7. intercollege
  8. intercollegial
  9. intercollegiate
  10. intercollegiately
  11. intercollegiates

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