ENVELOP
Dictionary entry overview: What does envelop mean?
• ENVELOP (verb)
The verb ENVELOP has 1 sense:
1. enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
Familiarity information: ENVELOP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ENVELOP (verb)
Meaning:
Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
enclose; enfold; envelop; enwrap; wrap
Context example:
Fog enveloped the house
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)
involve (wrap)
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 with or as if with light)
cover; enshroud; hide; shroud (cover as if with a shroud)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
