0 past simple and past participle of cocoon
1 to protect someone or something from pain or an unpleasant situation:
We tend to be cocooned in this establishment and the usual channels try to keep us here as long as possible.
They will be so cocooned in their own ministerial world that they will not be aware of what is happening.
Sadly, their views are often cocooned in humbug.
They do not need to be cocooned with restrictive practices and guarantees of state work.
Yet we do not live in cocooned isolation.
Those who live cocooned in that kind of political and physical comfort often can be much more detached, if not semi-detached, about these affairs.
Indeed, cocooned in their glass and steel offices and their limos, they will do better.
They will realise the nonsense of having prepared machinery and paraphernalia which is, as it were, cocooned for the ultimate of a war situation.
