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INCLOSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing

Example:

Insert your ticket here

Synonyms:

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

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

inject; shoot (force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing)

foist (insert surreptitiously or without warrant)

slip (insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly)

feed; feed in (introduce continuously)

interlard; intersperse (introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions)

cup (put into a cup)

catheterise; catheterize (insert a catheter into (a body part))

glass (put in a glass container)

inset (set or place in)

inoculate (introduce a microorganism into)

plug (replace the center of a coin with a baser metal)

plug (insert a plug into)

plug (insert as a plug)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

inclosure (the act of enclosing something inside something else)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Surround completely

Example:

They closed in the porch with a fence

Synonyms:

close in; enclose; inclose; shut in

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

border; environ; ring; skirt; surround (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle)

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

hedge; hedge in (enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges)

fort; fortify (enclose by or as if by a fortification)

corral (enclose in a corral)

casket (enclose in a casket)

cordon off; rope in; rope off (divide by means of a rope)

fence; fence in (enclose with a fence)

encapsulate (enclose in a capsule or other small container)

dike; dyke (enclose with a dike)

bank (enclose with a bank)

glass; glass in (enclose with glass)

border; frame; frame in (enclose in or as if in a frame)

bury; eat up; immerse; swallow; swallow up (enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing)

case; encase; incase (enclose in, or as if in, a case)

enshrine; shrine (enclose in a shrine)

bower; embower (enclose in a bower)

wall in; wall up (enclose with a wall)

insert; tuck (fit snugly into)

Sentence frames:

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

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