Verb

To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.

This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.

To spin a cocoon or a web.

Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.

To unite by close connection or intermixture.

* Shakespeare

This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.

* Byron

these words, thus woven into song

To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.

to weave the plot of a story

Verb

(weav)

To move by turning and twisting.

The drunk weaved into another bar.

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To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.

The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.

* Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Weave a circle round him thrice.

Verb

(en verb)

To cease giving milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.

The cow has weaned her calf.

* Bible, Genesis xxi. 8

Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned .

To cause to quit something to which one is addicted or habituated.

He managed to wean himself off heroin.

* Jonathan Swift

The troubles of age were intended to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.

To cease to depend on the mother for nourishment.

The kittens are finally weaning .

To cease to depend.

She is weaning from her addiction to tobacco.