envelop
verb (used with object)
to wrap up in or as in a covering.
has been enveloping
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present perfect progressiveof envelop (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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It is the clearest manifestation of the simple, unsophisticated man coming to the front and tearing aside for a brief moment the cloud of materialism with which civilisation has been enveloping him.
From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones
