| 单词 | envelop |
| 释义 | envelop (once / 686 pages) v When something envelops you, it wraps around you. The Snuggie Blanket is so popular because it envelops your body, leaving only your head uncovered. Sure, it looks dorky, but it keeps you extra warm. You probably noticed that envelop looks just like the noun envelope, minus that last letter "e", and that's an easy way to help you remember its meaning, too. Picture what an envelope does — it seals a letter completely inside, or envelops it. Envelop can also be used in a symbolic way, to describe something that consumes or occupies your mind. If the pretty girl you just met starts to envelop your thoughts, your work will suffer because you can't concentrate. Envelop comes from the late 14c. word envolupen, meaning "be involved in." WORD FAMILYenvelop: enveloped, enveloping, envelopment, envelops+/enveloping: envelopingly/envelopment: envelopments USAGE EXAMPLESThe smell of Pine Sol and other cleaning products envelops the small room. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Jane Austen’s self-enclosed world enveloped me, soothing in its contours and assumptions. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) The song invites a delicious, almost luxuriant self-pity and melancholy that envelops you like a steaming tub filled with expensive bath oils. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) v enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering Fog enveloped the house Syn|Hypo|Hyper enclose, enfold, enwrap, wrap benight envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness tubeplace or enclose in a tube capsulate, capsule, capsulise, capsulizeenclose in a capsule engulfflow over or cover completely sheatheenclose with a sheath cocoonwrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection bathesuffuse with or as if with light cover, enshroud, hide, shroudcover as if with a shroud cover provide with a covering or cause to be covered |
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