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
The flaming candlewood licked the resinous logs, and soon the smoke and flames began to enwrap the corpse.
From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente
This has a white flower and the leaves almost enwrap the stem.
From Tobacco Leaves Being a Book of Facts for Smokers by Brennan, W. A.
Once more he seemed to enwrap her in a look overflowing with tenderness; then returned to Dorot, and took his hand.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
We may be sure that the same quantity of mystery will ever enwrap the world, since it is the quality of the world, as of mystery, to be infinite.
From The Buried Temple by Sutro, Alfred
“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
No one in England can realise the thick and poisonous atmosphere of suspicion and distrust in which the immense diamond industry of Kimberley is enwrapped.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.
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
But emerging from the pine wood presently, and looking back from the height you have gained, the very plain behind you has assumed another aspect, a strange loveliness enwrapping it.
From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil
Then slowly they strolled on, silence enwrapping them, Helen's eyes wandering away to the glory of the stars, Howard's contented with the girl's face.
From The Desert Valley by Gregory, Jackson
The world was still pulsing with color, but the grey of twilight was slowly enwrapping it.
From Told in a French Garden August, 1914 by Aldrich, Mildred
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