0 past simple and past participle of envelop
1 to cover or surround something completely:
The journal vividly portrays the sense of uncertainty that enveloped the city as news of a^airs around its perimeters trickled in.
An audience is no longer offered the single-point perspective of film, but is instead enveloped within a three-dimensional space.
We can be enveloped and overpowered by sound, so that the boundaries between self and other seem to become less fixed.
The subject is enveloped by an emptiness and is already within its panorama, although a modest one.
In addition, the individual lipid bodies become enveloped by single rough endoplasmic reticulum cisterns.
These curves are then assembled into a mesh that is enveloped by appropriate surface patches.
The sole common climatic trait of the area enveloped by these collection sites is annual rainfall over 1300 mm, devoid of any marked seasonality.
The fruits have outer coverings that split open when mature and expose a black seed partly enveloped by a fleshy red aril.
