upwreath

词形变化

upwreathed upwreathing upwreaths 三单 upwreaths upwreathing 现在分词 upwreathed 过去式 upwreathed 过去分词

别名

upwreathe

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke does.

    不及物

    1822, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Apologia pro Vita Sua” in Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.), The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912, p. 345, In unctuous cones of kindling coal, Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe’s trim bole, His [the poet’s] gifted ken can see Phantoms of sublimity.

  2. 2.

    To twist or entwine (something) upward.

    及物

    1830, Reginald Heber, “Morte d'Arthur: A Fragment,” Canto 2, stanza 14, in The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber, London: Frederick Warne, no date, p. 210, […] coiled around his crest, a dragon long Upwreathed its golden spires the wavy plumes among.

  3. 3.

    To send (something) upward in curls.

    及物

词源

From up- + wreath.

来源：wiktionary