| 单词 | enfold |
| 释义 | enfold (once / 3638 pages) v To enfold is to wrap, envelop, or surround. You might enfold a baby in a blanket, or enfold a puppy in your arms. When you enfold something, you either wrap it in a cloth or covering, or you mimic this action literally — with your arms — or figuratively. You could say, for example, that as you walk home at sunset, the night begins to enfold your neighborhood. Or you can say that you love when your grandma enfolds you in a hug. The verb enfold combines the prefix en-, "make or put in" with fold. WORD FAMILYenfold: enfolded, enfolding, enfolds+/enfolding: enfoldings/fold: enfold, foldable, folded, folder, folding, folds, unfold/folder: folders/folding: foldings, infolding/infolding: infoldings/unfold: unfolded, unfolding, unfolds/unfolding: unfoldings USAGE EXAMPLESEnfold Women’s ready-to-wear from Japan with a sense of relaxed simplicity. New York Times(Nov 10, 2016) That’s just one example of the secrecy enfolding the cases. Washington Times(Sep 11, 2016) Montclair enfolded her in an embrace she will never forget, she said. Los Angeles Times(Sep 11, 2016) v enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering Syn|Hypo|Hyper enclose, envelop, enwrap, wrap benight envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness tubeplace or enclose in a tube capsulate, capsule, capsulise, capsulizeenclose in a capsule engulfflow over or cover completely sheatheenclose with a sheath cocoonwrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection bathesuffuse with or as if with light cover, enshroud, hide, shroudcover as if with a shroud cover provide with a covering or cause to be covered |
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