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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

Examples of enveloped

enveloped

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The journal vividly portrays the sense of uncertainty that enveloped the city as news of a^airs around its perimeters trickled in.
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.
The subject is enveloped by an emptiness and is already within its panorama, although a modest one.
In addition, the individual lipid bodies become enveloped by single rough endoplasmic reticulum cisterns.
These curves are then assembled into a mesh that is enveloped by appropriate surface patches.
The sole common climatic trait of the area enveloped by these collection sites is annual rainfall over 1300 mm, devoid of any marked seasonality.
The fruits have outer coverings that split open when mature and expose a black seed partly enveloped by a fleshy red aril.
On a ferry, one was enveloped by the life of the river, not distanced above it.
In its downward motion, the dome moves away from the probe which i t previously enveloped.
Usually, the radial gradients are assumed to be constant or enveloped by a slowly varying function.
If being in a place means being enveloped by, then being in a space means being encompassed by a layer of void.
Individual primordial follicle emerge completely enveloped within continuous basement membrane (follicle breakout).
A frightful truth, until now enveloped in a thick fog, begins to emerge into public view.
The output of the currently active enveloped oscillators is summed to provide the final pitch and amplitude modulation parameters.
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