Word.ws English Dictionary

intertongue

intertongue verb: to interlock.

Verb

intertongue (third-person singular simple present intertongues, present participle intertonguing, simple past and past participle intertongued)

  1. To interlock.
    • The gently undulating interstream timbered lands border the shallow valleys and intertongue irregularly with the prairie lands.1916, Lloyd William Stephenson, Geology and ground waters of northeastern Arkansas, page 149
    • North of Jack Creek, where the Chappo Member intertongues with the Hoback Formation, the Hoback thickens to 2,000 m.1977, John Adam Dorr, Deformation and Deposition Between a Foreland Uplift and an Impinging Thrust Belt: Hoback Basin, Wyoming

Forms of intertongue

third-person singular presentintertongues
present participleintertonguing
past participleintertongued
pastintertongued

Origin of intertongue

From inter- + tongue.

Questions about intertongue

What does intertongue mean?
Intertongue means to interlock.
What part of speech is intertongue?
Intertongue is a verb.
What is the past tense of intertongue?
The past tense of intertongue is intertongued.

Words near intertongue in the dictionary

  1. intertitles
  2. intertitling
  3. intertitular
  4. intertone
  5. intertones
  6. intertongue
  7. intertongued
  8. intertongues
  9. intertonguing
  10. intertonic
  11. intertonics

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: intertongue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “intertongue.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/intertongue. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.