transitive. To lap about, clasp, enfold, envelop; to environ, surround. Chiefly in past participle beˈlapped adj.

transitive. Of water or another substance: to submerge (a person or animal) to (also up to, etc.) a specified part of the body. Also in figurative…

To envelop or enclose in a surrounding medium, as flames, water, etc. Frequently in passive. (Cf. 6d.) Also reflexive.

transitive. To encompass, envelop, enclose on all sides; (also) to screen or conceal from (now chiefly of the atmosphere, light, etc.). Formerly…

transitive. To put in the shade; to overshadow, shroud. Also reflexive.

transitive. To roll or enwrap in anything that is wound round, or surrounds as a case or covering; to enfold, to envelop. Const. in, †with.

transitive. To wrap up, envelop in or with a garment, or a surrounding medium of any kind. Also with the garment, etc. as subject.

figurative. To envelop, involve, clothe.

transitive. figurative and in extended use (frequently in passive): to cover; to encircle, surround, or envelop; to conceal or obscure. In early use…

To wrap, cover closely on all sides with a surrounding medium (e.g. clouds, darkness, flames, an atmosphere, etc.). Const. in, with. Also with…

transferred. To wrap, enfold closely in a surrounding medium, e.g. clouds, darkness, vapour. Of the medium: To envelop. Also figurative.

transitive. To enfold, enwrap, entangle, involve: in literal and figurative senses. Obsolete.

To wind, fold, wrap, or twist round. something (e.g. the body) with a string, a cloth, or the like: to enwrap, envelop, involve, encompass. Also figur…

To surround (a thing) on all sides with or in (a fluid medium or the like); to bathe. (The surrounding substance may itself be the subject.)

transferred and figurative. To envelop or surround as with a wrapping; to enwrap, enfold; †to encircle so as to confine or restrain.

of immaterial surroundings (chiefly passive).

Of flames, etc.: to spread or extend around, about, or over (something); to surround, encompass. (Cf. sense 3.) Also with adverbs, as round, up.

transitive. = envelop, v.

transferred. Of mist, vapour, smoke, light: To ‘bathe’, envelop like a flood.

To suffuse, envelope, or encompass, like the air or the sunshine.

transitive. To cover with or wrap in a cloak.

transitive. To enfold or wrap in, or as in, a pall.

To surround like, or as with, an atmosphere.

transitive. To cover or envelop as with a kirtle.