ensheathed

verb

past tense of ensheathe
as in encapsulated

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  1. encapsulated
  2. cocooned
  3. surrounded
  4. encircled
  5. enfolded
  6. ringed
Verb
  • The early impressions of Downs were encapsulated in one moment during the team’s first training camp practice on Wednesday.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Customers first get a digital scan at any dental clinic and send it to Augmental, where the device then gets 3D printed and encapsulated.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of encapsulated
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  • Recent ideas suggest that little red dots could be black holes cocooned in thick gas, possibly representing a completely new type of object called a black hole star, in which the tight shroud of gas emits light like a stellar atmosphere.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2026
  • Occupiers of apartments and houses had grown used to all these sounds, which, far from disturbing their sleep, cocooned it.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
Definition of cocooned
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  • This autumn, the brand will open its first flagship at 35–37 Sloane Square in London, surrounded by premium lifestyle neighbours such as Tiffany & Co and Aesop.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Hudson-Smith went into the stand and up the stairs to pose next to his name, draped in the British flag, but was surrounded by too many empty seats.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of surrounded
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  • The pendant, which is encircled by diamonds, also includes a heart between the initials.
    — Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Lining the outer cell membrane, at the base of the cilia, were simple structures, each encircled by a single membrane.
    — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2026
Definition of encircled
Verb
  • Where the Eleousa pressed mother and child cheek to cheek and Cassatt enfolded mothers around their infants, de Monteflores goes further, disappearing the mother’s face entirely behind her child’s.
    — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
  • But the idea of a single galaxy’s stars being enfolded into the Milky Way is intriguing and worthy of further study, Battersby said.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 May 2026
Definition of enfolded
Verb
  • Each of the statues sits on a granite pedestal ringed with 36 stars, representing the states in the Union at the end of the Civil War.
    — Matt Viser, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Six years after the first vote, the site is still an aging arena ringed by parking lots.
    — Zack Defazio Farrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2026
Definition of ringed
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