enfold
verb (used with object)
to wrap up; envelop.
have enfolded
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present perfectof enfold.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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What miracles would have enfolded them ... what wonders of dawn-time ecstasy.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
Now the pair were face to face with the child of the Three—so near that with one of its misty tentacles it could have enfolded them.
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
Just those old, old walls, and the soft enfolding mists which must have enfolded them even so for perhaps three thousand years.
From The Rhodesian by Gertrude Page
The dress that came forth shimmered and gleamed and floated; it was a thing that must have enfolded any woman to beautiful lines, and have made any throat, any head, lift.
From The House of Fulfilment by George Madden Martin
Then they grew soft for his return and gay And with their love would have enfolded him.
From Songs and Satires by Edgar Lee Masters
