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
More than one pulse quickened at sight of him, for his gallantry, his peril and his boyishness combined to enwrap him in the atmosphere of romance.
From Crooked Trails and Straight by D. C. Hutchison
When it will enwrap me, I know not.
From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Richard Short
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
As the ghost disappears the instruments are weighted with that great and gloomy theme of revenge which seems to descend and enwrap the whole scene like a dark, heavy mist.
From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls
“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
It was also a universal custom among the elder folk to carry a Sunday posy; the stems were discreetly enwrapped with the folded handkerchief which also concealed the sprig of Fennel.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
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
Corot painted at Ville d'Avray; what he painted was God's twilight or dawn enwrapping tree and pool.
From The Enjoyment of Art by Carleton Eldredge Noyes
But Sassoon and the lure of a thousand shop-windows spreading before her their soft enwrapping mysteries of splendor....
From The Salamander by Owen Johnson
Well," said the monk, enwrapping the monastery with a gesture, "the question is solved here.
From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
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