ENWRAP (enwrapped, enwrapping)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected forms: enwrapped    , enwrapping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does enwrap mean? 

• ENWRAP (verb)
  The verb ENWRAP has 1 sense:

1. enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering

  Familiarity information: ENWRAP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENWRAP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they enwrap    ... he / she / it enwraps   
Past simple: enwrapped   
Past participle: enwrapped   
-ing form: enwrapping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

enclose; enfold; envelop; enwrap; wrap

Context example:

Fog enveloped the house

Hypernyms (to "enwrap" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enwrap"):

benight (envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness)

tube (place or enclose in a tube)

capsulate; capsule; capsulise; capsulize (enclose in a capsule)

engulf (flow over or cover completely)

sheathe (enclose with a sheath)

cocoon (wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection)

bathe (suffuse or envelope with something)

cover; enshroud; hide; shroud (cover as if with a shroud)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

When I saw him that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James’s Hall I felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set himself to hunt down.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)