Word Meanings - ENVELOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship. Nocturnal shades this world envelop. J. Philips. (more info)

Additional info about word: ENVELOP

To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship. Nocturnal shades this world envelop. J. Philips. (more info) envoleper, F. envelopper; pref. en- + voluper, voleper. See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENVELOP)

• Enclose
• Shut
• encircle
• environ
• include
• circumscribe
• envelop
• wrap
• afforest
• Enfold
• Wrap
• enclose
• embrace
• comprise
• Fold
• Double
• enfold
• inclose
• Involve
• Implicate
• confound
• mingle
• compromise
• complicate
• entangle
• Muffle
• Shroud
• disguise
• conceal

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENVELOP)

• Exclude
• except
• discard
• bar
• omit
• reject
• Aggravate
• excite
• foster
• perpetuate
• exempt
• enfranchise
• disengage
• extricate
• exonerate

Related words: (words related to ENVELOP)

• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• PERPETUATE
  To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize. Addison. Burke.
• DOUBLE
  Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• DOUBLE-LOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• DOUBLEHEARTED
  Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• DOUBLETHREADED
  Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• EXEMPTIBLE
  That may be exempted.
• AFFOREST
  To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.
• CIRCUMSCRIBE
  To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5. Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass. (more info) 1. to write or engare around. Thereon is
• WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
  A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
• BEMINGLE
  To mingle; to mix.
• UNSHROUD
  To remove the shroud from; to uncover. P. Fletcher.
• INTERMINGLE
  To mingle or mix together; to intermix. Hooker.
• UNIMPLICATE
  Not implicated. "Unimplicate in folly." R. Browning.
• INCONCEALABLE
  Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.
• COAFFOREST
  To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.