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enveloping |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Nocturnal shades this world envelop. --J. Philips. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: enveloping adj 1: concealing by enclosing or wrapping as if in something that is not solid; "the enveloping darkness"; "hills concealed by shrouding mists" [syn: {enveloping(a)}, {shrouding(a)}] 2: surrounding and closing in on or hemming in "the army's enveloping maneuver" [syn: {enveloping(a)}] n : the act of enclosing something inside something else [syn: {enclosure}, {enclosing}, {envelopment}, {inclosure}]
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