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Enclose| Verb | 1. | enclose - enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house"cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" benight - envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness; "The benighted peoples of this area" tube - place or enclose in a tube involve - wrap; "The tower was involved in mist" engulf - flow over or cover completely; "The bright light engulfed him completely" sheathe - enclose with a sheath; "sheathe a sword" cocoon - wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection bathe - suffuse with or as if with light; "The room was bathed in sunlight" enshroud, shroud, hide, cover - cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery" | | | 2. | enclose - close in or confinecontain, bear, carry, hold - contain or hold; have within; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water" embank - enclose with banks, as for support or protection; "The river was embanked with a dyke" rail in, rail - enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves" frame - enclose in a frame, as of a picture | | | 3. | enclose - surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"tuck, insert - fit snugly into; "insert your ticket into the slot"; "tuck your shirtail in" border, surround, skirt - extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" enshrine, shrine - enclose in a shrine; "the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral" encase, incase, case - enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud" bank - enclose with a bank; "bank roads" dike, dyke - enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water" encapsulate - enclose in a capsule or other small container corral - enclose in a corral; "corral the horses" hedge in, hedge - enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; "hedge the property" | | | 4. | enclose - introduce; "Insert your ticket here"glass - put in a glass container cup - put into a cup; "cup the milk" feed in, feed - introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor" slip - insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly; "He slipped some money into the waiter's hand" foist - insert surreptitiously or without warrant lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" inject, shoot - force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon" | |
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