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To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke does.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- 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.
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To twist or entwine (something) upward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- 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.
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To send (something) upward in curls.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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