enclose
Verb
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Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering (synset 201583316)
"Fog enveloped the house"is a type of: cover - provide with a covering or cause to be coveredsubtypes:
- benight - envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
- tube - place or enclose in a tube
- capsulate, capsule, capsulise, capsulize - enclose in a capsule
- engulf - flow over or cover completely
- sheathe - enclose with a sheath
- cocoon - wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection
- bathe - suffuse or envelope with something
- cover, enshroud, hide, shroud - cover as if with a shroud
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Close in (synset 202716988)
"darkness enclosed him"subtypes:
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Surround completely (synset 201589983)
"Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence"is a type of: border, environ, ring, skirt, surround - extend on all sides of simultaneously; encirclesubtypes:
- insert, tuck - fit snugly into
- wall in, wall up - enclose with a wall
- bower, embower - enclose in a bower
- enshrine, shrine - enclose in a shrine
- case, encase, incase - enclose in, or as if in, a case
- bury, eat up, immerse, swallow, swallow up - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- border, frame, frame in - enclose in or as if in a frame
- glass, glass in - enclose with glass
- bank - enclose with a bank
- dike, dyke - enclose with a dike
- encapsulate - enclose in a capsule or other small container
- fence, fence in - enclose with a fence
- cordon off, rope in, rope off - divide by means of a rope
- casket - enclose in a casket
- corral - enclose in a corral
- fort, fortify - enclose by or as if by a fortification
- hedge, hedge in - enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
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Place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing (synset 200187671)
"Insert your ticket here"subtypes:
- plug - insert as a plug
- plug - insert a plug into
- plug - replace the center of a coin with a baser metal
- inoculate - introduce a microorganism into
- inset - set or place in
- glass - put in a glass container
- catheterise, catheterize - insert a catheter into (a body part)
- cup - put into a cup
- interlard, intersperse - introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions
- feed, feed in - introduce continuously
- slip - insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- foist - insert surreptitiously or without warrant
- inject, shoot - force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
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