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How to pronounce envelop in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms enclose, enfold, enwrap, wrap
Type of cover
Has types benight, capsulate, capsule, capsulise, capsulize, cocoon, cover, engulf, enshroud, hide, sheathe, shroud, bathe, tube
Derivation envelopment


Fog enveloped the house.

Examples of envelop

envelop
Then I felt the arms of this 5-2 woman, those stocky but solid arms, envelop me.
From the washingtonpost.com
From this would flow unimagined misery, a fog which would envelop all our lives.
From the guardian.co.uk
The gorgeously designed sets and costumes envelop the actors in swirling color.
From the dallasnews.com
Godden puts it in the context of Juliet and the family whose hatreds envelop her.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The boardwalk will envelop walkers of every age, every ethnicity, every religion.
From the newsday.com
For example, your loving care of each other can envelop and soothe your children.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
If you hit into the oaks that envelop most of the holes, you've ventured off-line.
From the news-journalonline.com
Last fall I blew in enough attic insulation to envelop the attic to at least R-50.
From the dailyherald.com
This network would envelop children in a web of warm and supportive relationships.
From the theatlantic.com
More examples
  • Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house"
  • Enveloping(a): surrounding and closing in on or hemming in; "the army's enveloping maneuver"
  • Envelopment is the military tactic of surrounding an enemy in the field so that they are isolated in a pocket. The friendly forces can choose to attack the pocket or invest it (to stop supplies getting and to prevent breakouts) and wait for a beleaguered enemy to surrender.
  • To surround or enclose
  • (Enveloped) Applied to charges around which serpents are entwined. Also used in the case of laurel or other plants.
  • (Enveloping) an EDI management software function that groups all documents of the same type, or functioal group, and bound for the same destination into an electronic envelope. ...
  • (Enveloping) This is when, on a bar chart, the current session makes a higher high and a lower low than the previous session - it is said to be enveloping the previous session. ...
  • An enveloped being is surrounded by a formless matter, similar to an aura, which can be interpreted through color, light, and tone to indicate the personality of the surrounded object.