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
Darker and darker the cloud settles over his spirit; denser and still more dense the fogs of helpless ignorance and perplexity enwrap his intelligence.
From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Frederick Charles Jennings
Her hair was arranged in negligent fashion, and the soft folds of her morning gown to-day seemed to enwrap another woman and not the one whose beauty had intoxicated him.
From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Fritz Oswald Bilse
Thus the senseless stones enwrap the mysteries of the living stones, the work made with hands sets forth the spiritual work; and the double aspect of the Church is clear, adorned with double equipage.
From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson
She then looked toward Monte-Leone with an expression of the most passionate love, and immediately letting fall her veil, as if to enwrap her sentiments in night, left the room.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
“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
The manner of her bringing up and the atmosphere of melancholy by which she was enwrapped, caused her to think it possible to be on platonic terms with men upon a purely brotherly basis.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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
The sunlight broke through the enwrapping cocoanuts, and brought out dazzling white splotches on the sandy floor before the houses.
From Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines by Rounsevelle Wildman
Not that it could of itself have had sensation, without the enwrapping support of the rest of the structure.
From A Short History of Greek Philosophy by John Marshall
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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