| 单词 | enveloping |
| 释义 | enveloping (once / 4462 pages) adj Something that's enveloping encircles, enfolds, or surrounds. An enveloping fog blankets everything, seeming to close in on the entire landscape. Some things are literally enveloping, like your grandpa's enveloping hug or an enveloping blanket around a chilly toddler. Others are enveloping in a more figurative way, like enveloping mist that seems to surround you or an enveloping fear that overcomes you as you watch a scary movie. Enveloping comes from the Old French envoleper, "cover, fold up or wrap up," from en-, "in," and voloper, "wrap up." WORD FAMILYenveloping: envelopingly+/envelop: enveloped, enveloping, envelopment, envelops/envelopment: envelopments USAGE EXAMPLESIn another, a golfer in knickers surveys a shot from the branch of a live oak as a cloud seems close to enveloping him. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) In Jacobson’s immersive documentary, with an enveloping sound design that unnervingly captures every echoing clang of metal on metal, the sensation is all too palpable. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) The shadow grew, enveloping the whites of Papa’s eyes. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) adj surrounding and closing in on or hemming in the army's enveloping maneuver Syn close at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other |
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