enwind

American  

[en-wahynd] / ɛnˈwaɪnd /

verb (used with object)

enwound, enwinding

1. to wind or coil about; encircle.

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enwind British  

/ ɪnˈwaɪnd /

verb

1. (tr) to wind or coil around; encircle

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Etymology

Origin of enwind

First recorded in 1590–1600; en- ¹ + wind ²

Example Sentences

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enwind enwinding enwound

Then Cuteyt went into the prison, where he found Noureddin repeating the following verses: Who shall avail me against the woes that my life enwind?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John

Whom Heaven still leaves a twofold dignity, As girlhood gentle, and as boyhood free; With whom no most diaphanous webs enwind The bared limbs of the rebukeless mind.

From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Thompson, Francis

When thy sleep like the moonlight above         Lulling the sea, Doth enwind thee in visions of love,         Perchance, of me!

From Poems by Hugo, Victor

What profit to him that he had won the mastery over himself, had cut the tentacle coils that were enwinding him?

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie

Forth from those arms' enwinding leprosy At last I struggle—uncontaminate:310 Why must I leave you pressing to the breast That's all one plague-spot?

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

Praised be the fathomless universe For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise For the sure enwinding arms of cool, enfolding Death.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Hubbard, Elbert

Similarly appropriate and suggestive was the new linen cloth, which Joseph bought expressly for the purpose of enwinding the body.

From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by Stalker, James

So closely is the bare mythical construction enwound with the symbolic or doctrinal passages which are meant to give it such vitality and such coherence as they may.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

O ye who stand, this great doom's witnesses, Behold this too, the dark device which bound My sire unhappy to his death,—behold The mesh which trapped his hands, enwound his feet!

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

My difficulty with the Black Colonel was still more complicated, for it was as if a hair-rope of many strands, such as the Highlanders made, enwound us.

From The Black Colonel by Milne, James

He, hot for fight, the golden cuishes bound, And shook the spear, then put his corslet on, And strung the shield, and in his arms enwound, And gently through the helmet kissed his son.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

The rocks were covered with gray-green feathery creepers, enwound with curly yellow tendrils of love-vine.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie