upwreath

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke does. intransitive
    — 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. To twist or entwine (something) upward. transitive
    — 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. To send (something) upward in curls. transitive
    — And your fair vestals, watchful, swing Sweet incense for their welcoming, The while our thuribles shall be Upwreathing odorous thoughts to thee;

词形变化

upwreaths present,singular,third-person upwreathing participle,present upwreathed participle,past upwreathed past upwreathe alternative

词源

From up- + wreath.
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