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inwrap

American  
[in-rap] / ɪnˈræp /

verb (used with object)

inwrapped, inwrapping
  1. enwrap.


inwrap British  
/ ɪnˈræp /

verb

  1. a less common spelling of enwrap

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Once more—for the last time—did the sable robe inwrap us.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various

He whom the world could not inwrap Yonder lies in Mary's lap; He is become an infant small, Who by his might upholdeth all.

From The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their original melodies; with an English version by Leonard Woolsey Bacon

In the thick veil of fog that seemed suddenly to inwrap her, she stood for a moment irresolute, and then walked toward the beach, guided by the low wash of waters on the sand.

From Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories by Bret Harte

Deep shadows inwrap the cab, all the deeper for the glare that flashes through them every minute or two as Dan, back there on his iron shelf, stokes coal in at the red-hot door.

From Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett

A horrible something, as penetrable as mist, as keen as the sting of conscience, as inevitable as the burden of life, seemed to inwrap him.

From A Tar-Heel Baron by Edward Stratton Holloway

That he owed his employer any thing in integrity and sharp fighting with adverse circumstances, would never enter the mind of such a man, so inwrapped in self.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda Minnie Douglas

But my attention was too much engrossed, too much inwrapped with all I saw, to be able to give her any answer.

From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

It wore an inwrapped air, and, with all its mobility, was a mask.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 by Various

While they lie dormant, their potential capacities all inwrapped, they constitute what we entitle matter.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

And as I had suspected, she it was, arriving breathless and cloak inwrapped, only her white face showing.

From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd

Later, a gray fog stole softly over the roofs, soothing the wind-roughened surfaces, and inwrapping all things in an uncertain light and a measureless peace.

From Tales of the Argonauts by Bret Harte

Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and inwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost.

From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Frederick William Roe

As yet the hills are nearly all gray, the forests also inwrapping them are gray and ghostly, for the sun has but just risen above them, and vapors hang like a veil between.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn

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