enfold
verb (used with object)
to wrap up; envelop.
enfolds
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present tense formof enfold (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Cynthia puts her hands out to clasp mine and then enfolds me in her arms.
From BBC ● May 25, 2024
The coinage enfolds this book’s argument: Too many immigrants are being locked up like criminals, and no one — not even criminals — should be treated this way.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2020
The album ends with “Here You Are,” a cozy, floating, gradually gathering vamp that enfolds a grim summation: “We’re out of time/Believe the worst.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
In looking squarely at and deeply into things, they respect the actuality that enfolds us all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2016
But Mama’s sweetness enfolds him and coaxes him back.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
