"upwreath" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: upwreaths [present, singular, third-person], upwreathing [participle, present], upwreathed [participle, past], upwreathed [past]
Etymology: From up- + wreath. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|up|wreath}} up- + wreath Head templates: {{en-verb}} upwreath (third-person singular simple present upwreaths, present participle upwreathing, simple past and past participle upwreathed)
  1. (intransitive) To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke does. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-upwreath-en-verb-t49Q2bOr
  2. (transitive) To twist or entwine (something) upward. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-upwreath-en-verb-rk9tiyOY
  3. (transitive) To send (something) upward in curls. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-upwreath-en-verb-RP6GOGI0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with up-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 16 66 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with up-: 29 29 42 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 14 15 71 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 14 72
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: upwreathe

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "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,\nIn unctuous cones of kindling coal,\nOr smoke upwreathing from the pipe’s trim bole,\nHis [the poet’s] gifted ken can see\nPhantoms of sublimity."
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          "ref": "1850, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Building of the Ship”, in The Seaside and the Fireside, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 18:",
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        "(intransitive) To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke does."
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        "(transitive) To send (something) upward in curls."
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