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
With a roar and a rush our impi went at the waggon forts, spreading out in “horns” so as to enwrap the whole in a wall of living leaping men.
From The Induna's Wife by Mitford, Bertram
In response to the requests of the spectators, something like flashes of electricity shoot forth from her body, and envelop her or enwrap the spectators of these marvellous scenes.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
They had been used, I thought, to enwrap the flagons and cups.
From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler
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 Broughton, Rhoda
“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 Wingfield, Lewis
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 Noyes, Carleton Eldredge
His disappearance would cast upon her a reproach, unspoken, unseen, a mere mist enwrapping her fatally, but not to be dispelled.
From The Art of Disappearing by Smith, John Talbot
That mysterious It--that other divine self of the mystic--God--the enwrapping, sheltering force--had been with him always.
From Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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