• enPR: ĕn-vĕlʹəp, IPA: /ɛnˈvɛləp/

envelop (envelops, present participle enveloping; past and past participle enveloped)

1. (transitive) To surround or enclose.
   • 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “From the Cabby’s Seat”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, OCLC 1399985 ↗, page 165 ↗:

     In the fulness of time there was an eruption of the merry-makers to the sidewalk. The uninvited guests enveloped and permeated them, and upon the night air rose joyous cries, congratulations, laughter and unclassified noises born of McGary's oblations to the hymeneal scene.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

     (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.

• French: envelopper
• German: einhüllen, umhüllen
• Italian: circondare, avviluppare
• Portuguese: envolver
• Russian: окружа́ть
• Spanish: envolver