Meaning & use
intertwined
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Twisted together closely, or deeply and complexly connected.
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The two vines had grown intertwined around the old fence post.
Their fates became intertwined the moment they met on that train.
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Used literally for physical objects and figuratively for closely linked lives, histories, or ideas.
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