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ENVELOP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering

Example:

Fog enveloped the house

Synonyms:

enclose; enfold; envelop; enwrap; wrap

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "envelop" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "envelop"):

benight (envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness)

tube (place or enclose in a tube)

capsulate; capsule; capsulise; capsulize (enclose in a capsule)

engulf (flow over or cover completely)

sheathe (enclose with a sheath)

cocoon (wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection)

bathe (suffuse or envelope with something)

cover; enshroud; hide; shroud (cover as if with a shroud)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

envelopment (the act of enclosing something inside something else)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A species of non-enveloped, spherical and icosahedral viruses in the Picornaviridae family and Enterovirus genus.

(Echovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue enveloping, separating, or binding together muscles, organs, and other soft structures of the body.

(Fascia, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of enveloped viruses with a genome consisting of a single molecule of linear positive-sense single-stranded RNA.

(Flavivirus, NCI Thesaurus)

A family of enveloped viruses with a genome consisting of a single molecule of linear positive-sense single-stranded RNA.

(Flaviviridae, NCI Thesaurus)

HSV is a nuclear replicating, icosahedral, enveloped DNA virus.

(Human Herpesvirus 1, NCI Thesaurus)

An icosahedral, enveloped virus containing a single molecule of linear double-stranded DNA of 125000 nucleotides that infects only humans.

(Human Herpesvirus 3, NCI Thesaurus)

A family of non-enveloped, positive-stranded RNA viruses with an icosahedral capsid.

(Picornavirus, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a non-enveloped, icosahedral virus that contains a single-stranded linear DNA genome; approximately equal proportions of DNA of positive and negative sense are found in separate particles.

(Parvovirus B19, NCI Thesaurus)

The pineal parenchyma consists of follicles lined by epithelium and enveloped by connective tissues.

(Pineal Parenchyma, NCI Thesaurus)

The thunder ceased; but the rain still continued, and the scene was enveloped in an impenetrable darkness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)