v
(transitive) To furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service
n
Obsolete form of apparel. [Clothing.]
v
(transitive) To put a bar around; bar about; debar.
v
(transitive, archaic) To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.
v
(transitive) To put a border on something.
v
To enclose by drawing a box around.
v
(transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.
n
The last stone in a horizontal course, if smaller than the others; a piece of brick finishing a course.
n
A line of people or things placed around an area to enclose or protect it. [from 16th c.]
v
(transitive) To protect from intrusion by enclosing in a rope barrier.
n
An enclave within another enclave.
n
Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
v
(figuratively) To isolate.
n
Synonym of digital handcuffs
v
To close the curtains by pulling them together.
v
To add or wrap elastic around something.
v
(transitive, by extension) To include (something) in surrounding matter.
v
To enclose, surround, or protect.
v
(transitive, poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
n
An enclosure like a bower.
v
(transitive) To enclose in a box.
v
Obsolete form of impark. [(transitive) To enclose or confine in, or as if in, a park.]
n
Abbreviation of enclosure. (indicating that a letter is accompanied by further material) [(countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.]
v
To lock inside a cage; to imprison.
v
(transitive) To form into a camp.
v
(transitive) To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.
v
To enclose, as in a case.
n
The act of encasing or something that encases.
n
That which encases something.
v
(transitive) To place inside a casket.
v
(transitive) To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess.
v
(transitive) To restrain with, or as if with, chains.
v
(transitive) To enclose in a chamber.
n
The act of encincturing or girding.
n
(military) The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it
adj
Abbreviation of enclosed. [Contained; held within a container.]
v
To hold in (or as if in) a clasp; to embrace
adj
Formed into an enclave
n
The formation of an enclave (all senses)
v
(transitive) To enclose within a foreign territory.
v
(transitive) to surround with a wall, fence, etc.
n
More generally, someone or something that encloses something.
n
(uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
v
(transitive) To lay in a cradle.
v
(intransitive) To form a crust.
adj
(figuratively) Embedded, enclosed.
v
(transitive) To cover as if with a dome.
v
(rare, chiefly literary) To fasten, to bind tightly.
v
(architecture, transitive) To arrange (rooms or other structures) in a row.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To thread onto, or hang up on, a string or cord.
v
To enclose in, or as if in, a frame.
v
(transitive) To enclose in, or as if in, a kernel.
n
The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding with lace or as if with a lace.
v
(transitive, archaic) To enclose.
v
Obsolete form of immure. [(transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.]
v
(obsolete) To enclose with a rail or railings.
v
(transitive) To place in a secure environment.
n
The act, or the result of ensheathing
v
(transitive) To enclose in a shell.
v
(transitive) To enclose (a sacred relic etc.) in a shrine or chest.
v
(military) To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
v
(transitive) To enclose in a vault; to entomb.
n
(engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
n
Something which envelops
v
Alternative form of inwall [(transitive) To shut in or enclose with walls.]
v
To wrap around, surround; to envelop
v
(transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
v
To enclose with a fence.
v
To enclose an area within a fence.
adj
Alternative form of fenced in [Enclosed.]
v
(transitive, obsolete) To enclose; fence in, as a forest or park.
v
Alternative form of geofence. [(transitive, computing) To provide a geofence around (an area).]
v
(transitive, computing) To provide a geofence around (an area).
v
(transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
v
To enclose or surround something with a hedge, trees or other plant life.
v
(transitive) To seal with an airtight seal.
v
(archaic, transitive) To enclose in a box.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To enclose or fence with stakes.
v
(transitive) To enclose or fence in (land) to make a park.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
v
Alternative form of encage [To lock inside a cage; to imprison.]
v
Alternative form of encapsulate [(transitive) To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.]
v
Alternative spelling of encase [To enclose, as in a case.]
v
(intransitive) To cave inward.
v
(now uncommon) Alternative form of enclose [(transitive) to surround with a wall, fence, etc.]
n
(now uncommon) Alternative spelling of enclosure [(countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.]
v
Alternative form of encrust [(transitive) To cover with a hard crust.]
v
Alternative form of endungeon [(transitive) To confine in a dungeon.]
v
(transitive) To enclose within the substance of the heart.
v
(transitive) To insert; inlay.
v
(transitive) To enclose.
v
(transitive, rare, archaic) To inwrap in a mantle; enshroud.
v
Alternative spelling of ensconce [(transitive) To place in a secure environment.]
v
(transitive) To add an inset to something.
v
(literary, rare) To enclose in a shell.
v
(transitive) To yoke (oxen).
v
Archaic spelling of enswathe. [(transitive) To swathe or envelop (someone or something), as in swaddling clothes.]
v
Archaic spelling of entrap. [(transitive) To catch in a trap or snare.]
v
To enclose as if in a trunk.
v
(transitive) To shut in or enclose with walls.
v
Alternative form of enwrap [To wrap around, surround; to envelop]
n
(archaic) margin; edge; brink or verge.
v
(transitive) To surround with a moat.
v
(archaic) To enclose or imprison within walls.
v
(transitive) To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).
v
(transitive) To wrap in a secondary wrapper.
v
To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
v
(transitive) To enclose or shut in; park.
v
(transitive) To put inside a pavilion.
v
(transitive) To enclose in a pen.
v
(transitive) To make into a peninsula; to surround almost entirely with water.
adj
Enclosed; surrounded by some barrier.
v
(transitive) To guarantee the safety of funds or investment. In particular, to ensure some degree of distinction for monies, that may provide immunity against untoward financial claims.
v
To escort into, especially a place of shelter.
n
The process by which something is spanned.
v
To completely enclose or envelop.
n
The act or means by which something is tethered.
adj
Closely connected or associated.
v
(transitive) To place a bar under (a symbol).
v
(transitive) To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.
v
(figuratively, by extension) To isolate completely.
n
The process of supporting or securing something with a wedge.
v
(transitive) To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
v
(transitive and intransitive) To cover or enclose (something) by folding and securing a covering entirely around it.
n
(countable) Synonym of wraparound mortgage
n
Alternative form of wrap-up [A brief condensation or recapitulation as a final summary, especially to a news programme.]
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