Wreaths vs Wreathe - What's the difference?
wreaths | wreathe |
(wreath)
To twist, curl or entwine something into a shape similar to a wreath
To form a wreathlike shape around something
To curl, writhe or spiral in the form of a wreath
(obsolete) To turn violently aside or around; to wrench.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
*:from so heauie sight his head did wreath , / Accusing fortune, and too cruell fate [...].
As verbs the difference between wreaths and wreathe
is that wreaths is third-person singular of wreath while wreathe is to twist, curl or entwine something into a shape similar to a wreath.As a noun wreaths
is plural of wreath.wreaths
English
Noun
(head)- The children hung wreaths on all the doors.
Verb
(head)- The cemetery attendand wreaths the graves regularly.
- A ring of smoke wreaths the building.