Synonyms of enveloped

enveloped

verb

past tense of envelop

1

as in housed

to close or shut in by or as if by barriers

a chronic mistrust of outsiders envelops that neighborhood, cutting it off from the rest of the city

Synonyms & Similar Words

• housed
• surrounded
• encased
• enclosed
• confined
• included
• penned
• caged
• closeted
• hedged
• immured
• cooped (up)
• corralled
• bounded
• fenced (in)
• contained
• encaged
• hemmed (in)
• boxed (in)
• encompassed
• walled (in)
• restricted
• encircled
• mewed (up)
• limited
• enfolded
• circumscribed
• ringed
• cocooned
• encapsulated
• armored
• framed
• encysted
• enlaced
• enframed
• ensheathed
• encapsuled
• enwombed
• ensphered

2

as in wrapped

to surround or cover closely

the truth of the presidential assassination is enveloped in a dense fog of myths and conspiracy theories

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wrapped
• shrouded
• enclosed
• encased
• encompassed
• cocooned
• draped
• swathed
• enshrouded
• veiled
• enfolded
• muffled
• mantled
• involved
• enwrapped
• encircled
• embedded
• embraced
• embowered
• cloaked
• lapped
• embosomed
• bosomed
• bowered
• invested
• curtained
• blanketed
• enswathed
• circled
• circumfused
• disguised
• swaddled
• overlaid
• camouflaged
• masked
• overspread
• enlaced
• enwound

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposed
• stripped
• denuded
• bared

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of enveloped

The cooking creates so much smoke that the 24-year-old restaurant is enveloped in it. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026

Her black frames were huge, curved, and almost completely enveloped around her eyes, to look distinctly bug-like. — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 18 Aug. 2026

As White’s deep voice enveloped the theater, photographs of protests filled the screens behind her, creating the musical’s most poignant moment. — Maya Santiago, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026

On an 1888 rolling historic Victorian estate just off the bustling South Congress Avenue, Hotel Saint Cecilia offers a lavish collection of 20 bungalows, suites, and studios enveloped in a lush canopy of trees. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Aug. 2026

That trough disrupted the high pressure bubble near the Great Basin that was responsible for a West Coast heat wave that finally enveloped the Bay Area last week. — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026

During this hour in his presence a very tangible sense of aloneness enveloped me. — Chris Ware, The New York Review of Books, 12 Aug. 2026

Last month saw an intense heat wave that enveloped the eastern half of the country through the July 4th holiday weekend, with subsequent rounds of extreme heat that hit after that as well. — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026

The shroud of silence and fear that enveloped Syria throughout the Assad decades was gone. — Lina Sergie Attar, Time, 6 Aug. 2026