enwrap
Americanverb (used with object)
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to wrap or envelop in something.
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to surround or envelop, as in slumber, longing, etc.
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to absorb or engross, as in thought.
verb
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to wrap or cover up; envelop
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(usually passive) to engross or absorb
enwrapped in thought
Etymology
Origin of enwrap
Example Sentences
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Often, she coos the most extravagant slang that can be found for her tissue-paper tongue to enwrap.
From Time Magazine Archive
When it will enwrap me, I know not.
From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Richard Short
To many who walked homeward that evening it seemed in that benediction to enwrap the centuries of history they had so feverishly been celebrating, and to fold them softly away as a garment.
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
So skilfully did he enwrap himself in a spider's web of lies that it was impossible to catch a clear glimpse of him through it.
From Tales From J?kai by M?r J?kai
It seems to him as though, if he stretched out his arm to enfold his new love, it would instead enwrap his old one.
From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton
“The danger was it being so low to the ground, in many cases, that you’d be so enwrapped in the composition of the photograph that you would stall the plane and get in an accident.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
The weather conditions were hardly San Diego-like when Clevinger, nicknamed “Sunshine,” finally took the mound as low-hanging clouds enwrapped Progressive Field during the early innings.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2022
I was so enwrapped in the earnest endeavor I forgot, “This must be served with very hard or very silly jokes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2019
“The ships were enwrapped in a torrent of fire” and “presented one of the most sublime and magnificent spectacles which can be imagined.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2019
In silence we mounted, and in silence rode through all the hours of darkness, Cedric sitting with head bowed forward, enwrapped in gloomy thought as in a sable garment.
From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall
They’re some kind of selfie heaven, as are the enwrapping and enrapturing video works in “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest”* at the New Museum, starting Oct.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2016
Almost every nation and faith and ethnicity has a terrible enwrapping tale to tell about its persecution.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 20, 2015
Little guessed they of the troubles that filled his breast or the toils that were daily enwrapping him!
From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Talbot Baines Reed
But the heavy atmosphere remained, enwrapping the place in a sweltering, mist-like shroud, through which the blinded rays of the sun fell sullenly in a stifling glare.
From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Ernest G. Henham
Yet it was a cloud of tremendous potentiality, enwrapping a spirit of energy incarnate.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
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