enveloping

verb

present participle of envelop
1
as in housing
to close or shut in by or as if by barriers a chronic mistrust of outsiders envelops that neighborhood, cutting it off from the rest of the city

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2
as in wrapping
to surround or cover closely the truth of the presidential assassination is enveloped in a dense fog of myths and conspiracy theories

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Recent Examples of enveloping Landscape architect Nathan Browning completed the picture, enveloping the property in a canopy of palms and shaping its garden and pool into a lush, secluded retreat. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026 Blue skies, cool breezes, and plenty of chirping birds are enveloping the comfy Pharmalot campus, which is cause to fire up the coffee kettle for yet another cup of stimulation. — Ed Silverman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2026 The surf was raging, completely enveloping the craft with only the swaying masts visible in the blackness of the night. — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026 Life unfolds over an incomprehensible span of scales, from our planet-enveloping biosphere at one end, to individual cell-building biomolecules at the other. — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2026 Ma, like Lucas, evokes dreamlike scenography that heightens and shifts emotion through enveloping atmospheres. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 Save this for cold weather to truly savor its rich, enveloping smokiness. — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 25 Aug. 2026 The backlash to the massive server warehouses is enveloping races for governor in some of the nation’s biggest states and presidential battlegrounds. — Marc Levy, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026 The vibe is enveloping, the songs an easily digestible pastiche of pop splattered with hip-hop and the dancing pinpoint-perfect but loose when the Magnificent Seven are unleashed to showcase their personalities. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enveloping
  1. housing
  2. wrapping
  3. surrounding
  4. shrouding
  5. encasing
  6. enclosing
  7. confining
  8. encompassing
Verb
  • During a press event on the Paramount lot Tuesday, hours after the merger had closed, Skydance CEO David Ellison revealed that the two lots, each historically and currently housing both film and TV, would be organized differently.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Amid speculation that Drexel plans to sell the 150-year-old building housing the Academy, Philadelphia's city council proposed altering local zoning overlays in order to make selling the building or converting it to other uses more difficult.
    — Andrew Stelzer, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of housing
Verb
  • After Swift handed over the cake, Johnson jumped up and down before wrapping the singer in a hug.
    — Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026
  • After wrapping production on Man of Tomorrow in August, the fourth film in Gunn’s new DCU franchise is set to premiere July 9, 2027 in theaters.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of wrapping
Verb
  • The surrounding area has also become increasingly popular among billionaires, and in nearby Palm Beach, security has become part of the draw.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The film follows a protagonist returning to his hometown for the first time in 28 years, drawn back by the mystery surrounding a young artistic prodigy.
    — Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of surrounding
Verb
  • Congressional leaders, wired to protect their own and afraid of upsetting their narrow margins, are famous for shrouding ethics investigations in secrecy and dragging them out for years.
    — Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Advertisement Israel has bombed oil depots in Tehran, shrouding the city in toxic black smoke, and attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 1 Apr. 2026
Definition of shrouding
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  • Little Miner’s version isn’t so much a riff as an homage, with a flour tortilla encasing queso sauce, tortilla chips, chipotle aioli, lettuce, tomato, raw onion, sour cream and a choice of proteins.
    — Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The spigots serve as injection ports, where crews can pump grout behind the tunnel wall, with the goal of coating and encasing the entire tunnel lining under the Newtown Creek in a waterproof layer, filling any cracks along the way.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026
Definition of encasing
Verb
  • Nearby is The Birth, 2026, a ziggurat partly woven from bags of fertilizer, enclosing a film installation about the assembly of drones, shot in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Like the work of other Palestinian artists of his generation, Mansour’s paintings helped carry the dreams and testimony of his people beyond the walls enclosing Gaza and the West Bank.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of enclosing
Verb
  • If youth teams practiced like the pros, confining full contact to once a week, impacts could fall by more than half, Daneshvar says.
    — Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
  • In December 2025, non-profit Amnesty International wrote in a report that confining men in small cages exposed to the elements could constitute torture under international law.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of confining
Verb
  • Crane’s suite sat empty for most of Wednesday afternoon’s 7-4, season-ending loss in the American League wild-card round, leaving his employees to speculate how encompassing the transformation may be.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • From 2021 through 2027, approximately $35 million in investment is planned across the community, encompassing the Club, golf course, infrastructure, amenities and other improvements.
    — Trident Ventures Content Studio, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of encompassing

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“Enveloping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enveloping. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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