enwrap

American  

[en-rap] / ɛnˈræp /

verb (used with object)

enwrapped, enwrapping

1. to wrap or envelop in something.

2. to surround or envelop, as in slumber, longing, etc.

3. to absorb or engross, as in thought.

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enwrap British  

/ ɪnˈræp /

verb

1. to wrap or cover up; envelop

2. (usually passive) to engross or absorb

   enwrapped in thought

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Etymology

Origin of enwrap

1350–1400; Middle English enwrappen; see en- ¹, wrap

Example Sentences

Often, she coos the most extravagant slang that can be found for her tissue-paper tongue to enwrap.

From Time Magazine Archive

She pauses; a sudden chill seems to enwrap her.

From April's Lady A Novel by Hungerford, Margaret Wolfe

Thin misty clouds, white and shadowy, enwrap the fields and barren ghost-like trees and sweep across the distant hills.

From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess

Now, not only are they closed in silence, but a horror seems to enwrap all creation.

From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Jennings, Frederick Charles

Another, hasting to the sable bark Of brave Telemachus, bring hither all His friends, save two, and let a third command Laerceus, that he come to enwrap with gold The victim’s horns.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William