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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 enveloping

enveloping

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

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 musical experience is by its nature enveloping.
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.
Onward they pressed their standards and bore down on their opponents, enveloping them in the flames of their own torches.
However, that region evolves rapidly and spreads quickly, halting when the disturbance spans a region enveloping the destabilizing bump.
Nothing appeared to compromise its revolt against dehumanisation; nothing violated the defence that it erected between the individual and the enveloping system.
The term described writing mixed with walking and skiing, an intense relationship with the hut and seasonal movements enveloping it.
If the third definition is assumed, an "extension" must be there but must not have any thickness, if containing is to be understood as enveloping.
The ultrastructural aspects of the enveloping cell during sporogenesis have been occasionally described as a gradual and generalized degeneration.
Music circulates through this static visual field, enveloping and transfixing the figure of the singer.
Such processes closely followed the contours of the tegument, enveloping the spines.
The usual modesty of brickwork was transformed by the way it was applied to form an enveloping surface.
The model still remains sinusoidal, and of fixed pluck envelope, so further work would concentrate on adding some noise sources and slight individual enveloping for all partials.
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