enveloping

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. surrounding and closing in on or hemming in“the army's enveloping maneuver”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

enveloping \enveloping\ adj.

1.surrounding closely on all sides.

Syn: ambient, encompassing, surrounding(prenominal). [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

enveloping \enveloping\ n. the act or process of enclosing something inside something else.

Syn: enclosure, enclosing, envelopment, inclosure. [WordNet 1.5]

Envelop \En*vel"op\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enveloped; p. pr. & vb. n. Enveloping.] [OE. envolupen, envolipen, OF. envoluper, envoleper, F. envelopper; pref. en- (L. in) + voluper, voleper. See Develop.] To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship. [1913 Webster]

Nocturnal shades this world envelop. --J. Philips. Envelope

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