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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
beleaguer
beleaguered
beset
border
box someone/something in
dunk
enclosure
fence something off
flooding
gather
gift wrap
gift-wrapped
girdle
siege
soak
steep
steep something/someone in something
submersion
swaddle
swamp

envelop | American Dictionary

envelop
verb[ T ]
us/ɪnˈvel·əp/
to cover or surround something completely:
The entire area was enveloped in fog.

Examples of envelop

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However, enveloping grasps have the benefit of being robust to variations in the contact locations, so determining them precisely is unnecessary.
And the workspace of the cube-manipulator is, then, the intersection of the three enveloping solids.
The dashed lines represent the permutation envelopes calculated based on 1000 permutations of the morphs among locations within each population (see text for details).
Of course, the complexity enveloping a pattern in each specific setting has to be partially cleared so as to get at its basic mechanism.
The journal vividly portrays the sense of uncertainty that enveloped the city as news of a^airs around its perimeters trickled in.
It is ultimately the dimension by virtue of which things appear as enveloping one another rather than being juxtaposed.
We can learn from the orchids and the butterflies, just as we can consider the forest enveloping them.
An audience is no longer offered the single-point perspective of film, but is instead enveloped within a three-dimensional space.
We can be enveloped and overpowered by sound, so that the boundaries between self and other seem to become less fixed.
Onward they pressed their standards and bore down on their opponents, enveloping them in the flames of their own torches.
The subject is enveloped by an emptiness and is already within its panorama, although a modest one.
These curves are then assembled into a mesh that is enveloped by appropriate surface patches.
However, that region evolves rapidly and spreads quickly, halting when the disturbance spans a region enveloping the destabilizing bump.
Thus, for a court to have the potential of wielding real power, its jurisdiction must envelop salient political, social, and economic questions.
The sole common climatic trait of the area enveloped by these collection sites is annual rainfall over 1300 mm, devoid of any marked seasonality.
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