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cocooned

  • past participle
    of cocoon.
    cocoon
    noun
    the silky envelope spun by the larvae of many kinds of insects, as silkworms, serving as a covering for the insect during its stage as a pupa.
  • past tense form
    of cocoon.
    cocoon
    noun
    the silky envelope spun by the larvae of many kinds of insects, as silkworms, serving as a covering for the insect during its stage as a pupa.

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The cinema lights are low and you're cocooned in your seat, ready for the film to transport you to another world.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

I’m lying on a heated massage bed, cocooned in a soft, weighted blanket, as Kayla Faraji caresses my cheeks with billowy, pink goose feathers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026

Ms. Rizer begins in a peasant shift of woven jute and ends, after seven layers and 154 pounds of increasing Tolstoyan grandeur, cocooned in a wintry mantle of taupe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

But car bloat’s most obvious and urgent downside may be the danger it presents to anyone on the street who isn’t cocooned inside a gigantic vehicle.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2024

In the rhythmic clacking of the train and the stirring, peopled silence of the car, I feel cocooned.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline