MANTLING Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

mantling

verb

present participle of mantle

as in wrapping

to surround or cover closely early-morning fog mantled the fields along the river

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That season premiered in December 2025, wrapping in March of this year; Bravo has still not shared its plans for the future of the mainstay Vanderpump Rules.

— McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026
Human wellness devices have normalized the format, whether that means wearing it, sitting under it or wrapping it on, and pet owners increasingly expect the same tools for their animals.

— Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of wrapping

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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

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Life unfolds over an incomprehensible span of scales, from our planet-enveloping biosphere at one end, to individual cell-building biomolecules at the other.

— Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2026
Ma, like Lucas, evokes dreamlike scenography that heightens and shifts emotion through enveloping atmospheres.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of enveloping

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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

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