enwrap
/ɪnˈrap
/ /ɛnˈrap/verb (enwraps, enwrapping, enwrapped) [with object]
1Wrap; envelop: the book jacket enwraps a plain blue paper binding...
- Indeed, he laments his genre's lack of status before the book even begins, on a narrative broadsheet-cum-book jacket that enwraps one of the lushest tributes to the graphic arts ever printed.
- Both these truths work to enwrap the book in an aura at once mysterious and almost unbreachable.
- Everywhere, whatever the script and however different the set looked, a sense of entrapment prevailed, like a thick, dark cloud enwrapping the stage and spreading to the auditorium.
1.1Engross or absorb (someone): they were enwrapped in conversation...
- He fails to get the exercise his body needs and is so enwrapped in his world of cyber heroes and villains that he skips meals too.
- He seems to have become so enwrapped in the technical problems that he has lost sight of its inescapably political context.
- When I saw him that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall, I felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set himself to hunt down.
