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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enwrap.

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Examples

  • She exudes pure love, but enwraps space and time in a thick, menacing haze.

    Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010

  • A warmth sifts through, envelops, enwraps, I embrace it for I will not wither, I will not perish alive

    A Visit 2010

  • It also enwraps them in a world in which facts supportive of Democratic claims are discredited and those consistent with conservative ones championed.

    How the conservative media harm democracy Steven E. Levingston 2010

  • It also enwraps them in a world in which facts supportive of Democratic claims are discredited and those consistent with conservative ones championed.

    How the conservative media harm democracy 2010

  • Mystery enwraps this enigma, except we know that he was a professional skateboarder back in the day.

    Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Twenty-One 2009

  • I believe it not in much danger; and, for others – I see not in it that magnetic attraction which charms away all caution, beguiles all security, enwraps the imagination, and masters the reason! '—

    Camilla 2008

  • In Reversal of Fortune this question is asked by Sunny von Bulow (Glenn Close) speaking from within the coma that still enwraps the real Sunny today.

    The Big Chill In The Upper Crust 2008

  • Is not every incentive and every concession to vagrant appetite a force that enwraps a man in gratification of self, and severs him from duty to others, and so a force of dissolution and dispersion?

    Voltaire 2007

  • Symbolism enwraps interlocked themes; male sexuality, female desire, hidden agendas, friendly faces hiding monsters, human indifference to suffering, the mindless savagery that is civilization — crueler than any giant ape could be, calling us to a need to redefine our relationship with wildness, with the animal world itself.

    Boing Boing: December 4, 2005 - December 10, 2005 Archives 2005

  • With its fangs at the rear of the mouth, it lacks the ability to deliver a lightning-quick poisonous stab, like a rattlesnake; instead it enwraps its prey and injects its venom methodically in the act of chewing.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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