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
Stormclouds enwrap the day, and rainy gloom blots out the sky; out of the clouds bursts fire fast upon fire.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
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 William Young
I can't flatter myself that I possess anything more than the one talent, and my quarterly dividend makes a convenient napkin in which to enwrap it; the old allegory seems to fit my case precisely.
From In Jeopardy by Van Tassel Sutphen
When it will enwrap me, I know not.
From Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus by Richard Short
“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
Events, few in number, not less strange, perhaps, than those which have already occurred, but less enwrapped in mystery, and gradually shaping themselves towards the inevitable end.
From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford
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
With the live green moss environing her, with the bride-white flowers enwrapping her from dreamless head to foot, she has gone—gone from sofa and settle and garden—gone soon from everywhere, save from Peggy's heart.
From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton
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
She went fearlessly to the couch, and found that the dressing-gown was only an enwrapping of the emaciated and lifeless body of De Ferrières.
From Frontier Stories by Bret Harte
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