enfold
verb (used with object)
to wrap up; envelop.
had enfolded
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past perfectof enfold.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In Israel the emigrants suddenly sensed the loss of a double cocoon that had enfolded them.
From Time Magazine Archive
And when at last I opened my eyes the silence which had enfolded me had given place to a pervasive murmur, the sound from the suppliant lips and beseeching throats of the multitude.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
I pulled off the blankets in which the late junior partner had enfolded himself, and exhibited my prisoner.
From Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Oliver Optic
Suddenly he seemed to feel how tenderly the loving arms of his daughters had enfolded him.
From Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland
That was before man on Mars had enfolded spiritually.
From The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation by J. L. Kennon
