Envelop
verb
To cover or surround completely.
The fog enveloped the city.
Often appears as...
- envelop in fog
- envelop in darkness
verb
To hide or cover something as if by wrapping.
The mansion is enveloped by a high wall.
Often appears as...
- envelop in secrecy
- envelop in a cloak
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To cover or surround completely.
The fog enveloped the city.
Often appears as...
- envelop in fog
- envelop in darkness
verb
To hide or cover something as if by wrapping.
The mansion is enveloped by a high wall.
Often appears as...
- envelop in secrecy
- envelop in a cloak
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Total Immersion
Used to express being completely surrounded by something, often creating a sense of immersion.
In the lush jungle, the explorers were enveloped by the sounds of wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3Atmospheric Effect
Describes a situation where something intangible seems to wrap around, creating a specific mood.
A sense of excitement enveloped the crowd as the concert began.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Often used metaphorically to describe being engulfed emotionally or cognitively.
She was enveloped in a wave of nostalgia looking through old photos.
Pro Tip 1/3Total Immersion
Used to express being completely surrounded by something, often creating a sense of immersion.
In the lush jungle, the explorers were enveloped by the sounds of wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3Atmospheric Effect
Describes a situation where something intangible seems to wrap around, creating a specific mood.
A sense of excitement enveloped the crowd as the concert began.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Often used metaphorically to describe being engulfed emotionally or cognitively.
She was enveloped in a wave of nostalgia looking through old photos.
Pro Tip 1/3Total Immersion
Used to express being completely surrounded by something, often creating a sense of immersion.
In the lush jungle, the explorers were enveloped by the sounds of wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3Atmospheric Effect
Describes a situation where something intangible seems to wrap around, creating a specific mood.
A sense of excitement enveloped the crowd as the concert began.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Often used metaphorically to describe being engulfed emotionally or cognitively.
She was enveloped in a wave of nostalgia looking through old photos.
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Why is pneumonia so...
Because alveoli serve as critical exchange points between the blood and air from the outside world, they have their own specialized types of white blood cells, or macrophages, which defend against foreign organisms by enveloping and eating them. When pathogens enter the lungs, the macrophages work to destroy them.
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A call to men PIPE Tony...
and I was feeling a tremendous amount of remorse at that time, but I was conflicted, because, while I was feeling remorse, I was excited, because I didn't get caught. But I knew I felt bad about what was happening. This fear, getting outside the man box, totally enveloped me. It was way more important to me,
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Wade Davis: Cultures at...
can only fill you with hope. Now, together the myriad cultures of the world make up a web of spiritual life and cultural life that envelops the planet, and is as important to the well-being of the planet as indeed is the biological web of life that you know as a biosphere.
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The secret to desire in...
doing something in which they are enveloped, I look at this person and I momentarily get a shift in perception, and I stay open to the mysteries that are living right next to me. And then, more importantly, in this description about the other
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Mars 101 PIPE National...
sulphur which may have created a protective magnetic field during Mars's earlier years enveloping the core is a rocky mantle made of silicate minerals and a crust rich in iron these iron minerals react with the trace amounts of
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Testing the Mona Lisa PIPE...
curators who organized the testing the models seem to be enveloped by a transparent gauze like veil I could observe that there was girls on the left arm that will also goes on the right arm and the mother seems to be totally
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The legend of Annapurna,...
enveloped the world in eerie silence. Without Parvati, the land became dry and barren. Rivers shrank and crops shriveled in the fields. Hunger descended on humanity. Parents struggled to console their starving children
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How glaciers impact...
aurora borealis and the glacier glows refracts light like a chandelier and were enveloped above and below with light and ice incredible unforgettable this moment for it's a part of who I am
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5 Animals You Didn't...
it's mouth envelops and suffocates the earth world
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Weirdest Creepy Crawly...
it's mouth envelops and suffocates the earth world
Video examples
Why is pneumonia so...
Because alveoli serve as critical exchange points between the blood and air from the outside world, they have their own specialized types of white blood cells, or macrophages, which defend against foreign organisms by enveloping and eating them. When pathogens enter the lungs, the macrophages work to destroy them.
Video examples
A call to men PIPE Tony...
and I was feeling a tremendous amount of remorse at that time, but I was conflicted, because, while I was feeling remorse, I was excited, because I didn't get caught. But I knew I felt bad about what was happening. This fear, getting outside the man box, totally enveloped me. It was way more important to me,
Video examples
Wade Davis: Cultures at...
can only fill you with hope. Now, together the myriad cultures of the world make up a web of spiritual life and cultural life that envelops the planet, and is as important to the well-being of the planet as indeed is the biological web of life that you know as a biosphere.
Video examples
The secret to desire in...
doing something in which they are enveloped, I look at this person and I momentarily get a shift in perception, and I stay open to the mysteries that are living right next to me. And then, more importantly, in this description about the other
Video examples
Mars 101 PIPE National...
sulphur which may have created a protective magnetic field during Mars's earlier years enveloping the core is a rocky mantle made of silicate minerals and a crust rich in iron these iron minerals react with the trace amounts of
Video examples
Testing the Mona Lisa PIPE...
curators who organized the testing the models seem to be enveloped by a transparent gauze like veil I could observe that there was girls on the left arm that will also goes on the right arm and the mother seems to be totally
Video examples
The legend of Annapurna,...
enveloped the world in eerie silence. Without Parvati, the land became dry and barren. Rivers shrank and crops shriveled in the fields. Hunger descended on humanity. Parents struggled to console their starving children
Video examples
How glaciers impact...
aurora borealis and the glacier glows refracts light like a chandelier and were enveloped above and below with light and ice incredible unforgettable this moment for it's a part of who I am
Video examples
5 Animals You Didn't...
it's mouth envelops and suffocates the earth world
Video examples
Weirdest Creepy Crawly...
it's mouth envelops and suffocates the earth world
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George Clooney
American Actor
There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.
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Wade Davis
Canadian Scientist
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
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Kelela
American Musician
I try to make it a sonic experience so that when you put your earbuds in or when you're in your room, it sounds like an enveloping feeling. I think that is the most important thing, that wherever you are, it is wrapping you up and making you feel safe and comfortable.
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Carl Sagan
American Scientist
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
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Eva Amurri
American Actress
One of my biggest goals as a mom is to be a pillar of strength for my children - to envelop them in love and address every emotion, but also to have them be absolutely sure that I can protect them in any situation.
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Barbara Kruger
American Artist
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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Charles Baudelaire
French Poet
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
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Bryant H. McGill
American Author
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
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Paige Spiranac
American Athlete
I respect and understand that golf is enveloped in tradition and that certain rules and regulations must be upheld.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish Scientist
Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
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George Clooney
American Actor
There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.
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Wade Davis
Canadian Scientist
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
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Kelela
American Musician
I try to make it a sonic experience so that when you put your earbuds in or when you're in your room, it sounds like an enveloping feeling. I think that is the most important thing, that wherever you are, it is wrapping you up and making you feel safe and comfortable.
Quote examples
Carl Sagan
American Scientist
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
Quote examples
Eva Amurri
American Actress
One of my biggest goals as a mom is to be a pillar of strength for my children - to envelop them in love and address every emotion, but also to have them be absolutely sure that I can protect them in any situation.
Quote examples
Barbara Kruger
American Artist
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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Charles Baudelaire
French Poet
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
Quote examples
Bryant H. McGill
American Author
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
Quote examples
Paige Spiranac
American Athlete
I respect and understand that golf is enveloped in tradition and that certain rules and regulations must be upheld.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish Scientist
Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
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