Learn English Irregular Verbsweave /wiːv/
- 1 to make something (such as cloth) by crossing threads or other long pieces of material over and under each other:
Spiders weave magnificent webs that are almost invisible sometimes.
He learned how to weave grass and ferns together to make a shelter.
I received a small loom for my ninth birthday and wove cloth for the first time. - 2 to put a lot of different facts, ideas, events etc together and connect them smoothly into a story or a connected whole:
My grandfather used to keep us awake at night weaving exciting stories of adventure.
But as he wove with his hands, he also wove oral narratives: some of the best and tallest tales heard in the piney hills of North Louisiana.
Past simple
- wove /wəʊv/
Past participle
- woven /wəʊv(ə)n/
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