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encapsule

American  
[en-kap-suhl, -syool] / ɛnˈkæp səl, -sjul /

verb (used with or without object)

encapsuled, encapsuling
  1. encapsulate.


Etymology

Origin of encapsule

First recorded in 1875–80; en- 1 + capsule

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However, I must confess great sympathy for frustrated Women's Lib groups when an article attempting to encapsule a writer's background makes no mention that his wife is quite a person in her own right.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here was the Watergate tragedy encapsuled in a brief telephone conversation.

From Time Magazine Archive

At sea all hands take exquisite pains to keep the encapsuled atmosphere habitable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Destroyers, carriers, airplanes and helicopters scout hundreds of miles of ocean to pull an encapsuled astronaut out of the drink or save a set of valuable instruments.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here is this earth, a marvellous onion, a series of encapsuled worlds, each successive foliation preserving the intimate secrets of its own irrecoverable life.

From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock

The posterior set, on the other hand, cling close to the posterior region of the body and give to it a peculiar encapsuled appearance.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)

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