cocooning

verb

Definition of cocooningnext
present participle of cocoon
as in wrapping
to surround or cover closely cocooned in puffy down parkas, we braved the bitter cold as best we could

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Recent Examples of cocooning That said, the Inn itself is so cocooning that many guests end up spending far more time on the property than originally planned. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Aug. 2026 Drivers who failed to dig out while the snow from our late-January storm was still soft are now contending with thick walls of ice cocooning their vehicles. — Clio Chang, Curbed, 5 Feb. 2026 Josephson likes to turn down the volume on the outside world, cocooning her readers in the white noise of affirmation. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026 Fluid yet substantial, this favorite from Cos skims the body with soft folds that are both cocooning and refined. — Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2025 The first is with Tallulah, her best friend slash client who’s been slacking off on both fronts since cocooning into her new relationship with Tessa. — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2025 The half-moon shape is especially conducive to cocooning you for hours on end. — Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2025 That’s just shy of a record 444 set in 2022 when people were cocooning in homes during the pandemic. — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025 On the other are technologists, military planners and captains of industry who are rapidly cocooning our planet in ever growing swarms of starlight-spoiling satellites. — Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cocooning
  1. wrapping
  2. enveloping
  3. shrouding
  4. enclosing
  5. encasing
Verb
  • Leaning on her and wrapping her body around her, almost smothering.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Know More The government’s Child Care and Development Fund was created to help low-income workers afford childcare, so supporters of the new plan say wrapping in stay-at-home parents is only fair.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of wrapping
Verb
  • Ma, like Lucas, evokes dreamlike scenography that heightens and shifts emotion through enveloping atmospheres.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Save this for cold weather to truly savor its rich, enveloping smokiness.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of enveloping
Verb
  • Congressional leaders, wired to protect their own and afraid of upsetting their narrow margins, are famous for shrouding ethics investigations in secrecy and dragging them out for years.
    — Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Advertisement Israel has bombed oil depots in Tehran, shrouding the city in toxic black smoke, and attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 1 Apr. 2026
Definition of shrouding
Verb
  • Nearby is The Birth, 2026, a ziggurat partly woven from bags of fertilizer, enclosing a film installation about the assembly of drones, shot in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Like the work of other Palestinian artists of his generation, Mansour’s paintings helped carry the dreams and testimony of his people beyond the walls enclosing Gaza and the West Bank.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of enclosing
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  • Little Miner’s version isn’t so much a riff as an homage, with a flour tortilla encasing queso sauce, tortilla chips, chipotle aioli, lettuce, tomato, raw onion, sour cream and a choice of proteins.
    — Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The spigots serve as injection ports, where crews can pump grout behind the tunnel wall, with the goal of coating and encasing the entire tunnel lining under the Newtown Creek in a waterproof layer, filling any cracks along the way.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026
Definition of encasing

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“Cocooning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cocooning. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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