intercoil

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verb

To coil together.

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Meanings

verbintercoil (third-person singular simple present intercoils, present participle intercoiling, simple past and past participle intercoiled)

present singular third person intercoils · participle present intercoiling · participle past intercoiled · past intercoiled

  1. To coil together.
    1 more example

    For a time nothing but eyes, and then he speaks of tentacles streaming out and parting the weed fronds this way and that. Then these things, growing larger, until at last the bottom was hidden by their intercoiling forms, and the tips of tentacles rose darkly here and there into the air above the swell of the waters.

    1896, H G Wells, The Sea Raiders

Origin

From inter- + coil.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

reliction
Cite this entry
APA

intercoil. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intercoil

MLA

“intercoil.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intercoil. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “intercoil,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intercoil.

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