What's the difference between wreathe and wreathed?
Wreathe
Definition:
(n.) To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.
(n.) To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine.
(n.) To surround with anything twisted or convolved; to encircle; to infold.
(n.) To twine or twist about; to surround; to encircle.
(v. i.) To be intewoven or entwined; to twine together; as, a bower of wreathing trees.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fully developed wreath around the Graafian follicle consists of sinusoidal capillaries.
(2) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel , visited Moscow the day after the parade to lay a wreath at a war memorial, but she criticised Russia’s “illegal” annexation of Crimea in a joint press conference with Putin.
(3) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
(4) Following the Last Post, wreaths will be laid and the Act of Remembrance will finish with a royal salute.
(5) The proper vascular pattern of the rat ovarian follicle starts as a basket-like wreath of fine capillaries around the primary follicle.
(6) Ciaran Jenkins (@C4Ciaran) Messages on the wreaths laid by David Cameron and Ed Miliband.
(7) Festival organisers are targeting the disposable bottle – one of the most conspicuous symbols of the throwaway culture that each year leaves the 900-acre Somerset site wreathed in plastic, with an estimated one million plastic bottles being used during the festival.
(8) Families will have the opportunity to lay floral wreaths.
(9) Francis, an Argentinian whose own grandparents emigrated from Italy, cast a wreath of flowers in the papal colours of yellow and white on to the water in commemoration of those who have died.
(10) The Labour leader came under immediate and intense fire on social media for appearing not to bow as deeply as other political leaders during his wreath-laying at the Whitehall war memorial.
(11) Within an hour of arriving in Seoul on Friday Obama laid a wreath at a war memorial honouring Americans killed in the Korean war.
(12) The prime minister bowed her head in respect after laying a large red and white wreath – the colours of Turkey’s flag – before Atatürk’s sarcophagus inside the imposing mausoleum on a hill in the centre of Ankara.
(13) She laid a wreath at the memorial, officially dedicated only recently, to honour their memory.
(14) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
(15) Unlike some museum reshuffles, news of Nairne's departure came wreathed in expressions of regret and praise for his term at the gallery, which has been described as "exemplary".
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Turkish soldiers rehearse a wreath-laying ceremony at the Lone Pine monument to Australian soldiers killed during the Gallipoli campaign, near Eceabat, Turkey.
(17) In Ireland, the taoiseach, Enda Kenny, travelled north of the border to join the Northern Ireland secretary, Theresa Villiers, in laying wreaths at the memorial in Enniskillen, in the heart of the town ripped apart by an IRA bomb during a Remembrance ceremony 26 years ago, killing 11 people.
(18) The sub-basal dense plate (SDP) with a wreath of anchoring filaments remained on the epidermal side of the split adjacent to the hemidesmosomal part of the plasma membrane of basal keratinocytes.
(19) The music stops, then the crowd gathers round as a woman in traditional dress places a large wreath on a grave.
(20) Immaculately dressed, wreathed in smoke, he sees through everyone and everything: “I am nobody’s fool.” His stature is in all senses overwhelming.
Wreathed
Definition:
(imp.) of Wreathe
(p. p.) of Wreathe
Example Sentences:
(1) The fully developed wreath around the Graafian follicle consists of sinusoidal capillaries.
(2) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel , visited Moscow the day after the parade to lay a wreath at a war memorial, but she criticised Russia’s “illegal” annexation of Crimea in a joint press conference with Putin.
(3) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
(4) Following the Last Post, wreaths will be laid and the Act of Remembrance will finish with a royal salute.
(5) The proper vascular pattern of the rat ovarian follicle starts as a basket-like wreath of fine capillaries around the primary follicle.
(6) Ciaran Jenkins (@C4Ciaran) Messages on the wreaths laid by David Cameron and Ed Miliband.
(7) Festival organisers are targeting the disposable bottle – one of the most conspicuous symbols of the throwaway culture that each year leaves the 900-acre Somerset site wreathed in plastic, with an estimated one million plastic bottles being used during the festival.
(8) Families will have the opportunity to lay floral wreaths.
(9) Francis, an Argentinian whose own grandparents emigrated from Italy, cast a wreath of flowers in the papal colours of yellow and white on to the water in commemoration of those who have died.
(10) The Labour leader came under immediate and intense fire on social media for appearing not to bow as deeply as other political leaders during his wreath-laying at the Whitehall war memorial.
(11) Within an hour of arriving in Seoul on Friday Obama laid a wreath at a war memorial honouring Americans killed in the Korean war.
(12) The prime minister bowed her head in respect after laying a large red and white wreath – the colours of Turkey’s flag – before Atatürk’s sarcophagus inside the imposing mausoleum on a hill in the centre of Ankara.
(13) She laid a wreath at the memorial, officially dedicated only recently, to honour their memory.
(14) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
(15) Unlike some museum reshuffles, news of Nairne's departure came wreathed in expressions of regret and praise for his term at the gallery, which has been described as "exemplary".
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Turkish soldiers rehearse a wreath-laying ceremony at the Lone Pine monument to Australian soldiers killed during the Gallipoli campaign, near Eceabat, Turkey.
(17) In Ireland, the taoiseach, Enda Kenny, travelled north of the border to join the Northern Ireland secretary, Theresa Villiers, in laying wreaths at the memorial in Enniskillen, in the heart of the town ripped apart by an IRA bomb during a Remembrance ceremony 26 years ago, killing 11 people.
(18) The sub-basal dense plate (SDP) with a wreath of anchoring filaments remained on the epidermal side of the split adjacent to the hemidesmosomal part of the plasma membrane of basal keratinocytes.
(19) The music stops, then the crowd gathers round as a woman in traditional dress places a large wreath on a grave.
(20) Immaculately dressed, wreathed in smoke, he sees through everyone and everything: “I am nobody’s fool.” His stature is in all senses overwhelming.