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enveloping
adjective as in encompassing
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The Babadook is the shape of grief: all-enveloping, shape-shifting, black, here intensely, terrifying, then gone.
Rich, poor, or middle class, the chaos of 21st-century “love lives” is swiftly enveloping us all.
In the midst of news about scandals enveloping the department, they reflect on the meaning of public service.
“We resemble a successful lichen, a ravaging bloom of algae, a mold enveloping a fruit,” reads the text.
His ecstacy was a drug, enveloping his senses; again it was a fire that threatened the very altar of his soul.
The Maker of Sounds was garbed in an all-enveloping white burnous and a white skull cap.
These clothes passed partly through the gap, the sail-cloth outside enveloping them.
The red flames rise and lick up the sides, while the enveloping smoke wreathes around the corpse.
Then, suddenly, the thick, all-enveloping mists that held them were gone.
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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to enveloping, such as: encircling, surrounding, ambient, and circumferential.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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