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encased

encased adjective: enclosed; existing within a container. Also the simple past and past participle of encase.

Adjective

encased (comparative more encased, superlative most encased)

  1. Enclosed; existing within a container.
    • Whether material or spiritual, this is not the environment we know; even the most encased of physical beings, and the most unexperienced modes of being spiritual, are present to each other in expectation of experience if in no other way.2015, Christopher Berry Gray, Being A Primer
    • "She was quite stiff," he recalled. "I don't think she really enjoyed it. She felt very encased in her body."2016, Arthur Lubow, Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer, page 25

Also used as

encased is also the simple past and past participle of encase.

Forms of encased

comparativemore encased
superlativemost encased

Words formed from encased

Questions about encased

What does encased mean?
Encased means enclosed; existing within a container.
What part of speech is encased?
Encased is an adjective.

Words near encased in the dictionary

  1. encarriage
  2. encarriaged
  3. encarriages
  4. encarriaging
  5. encase
  6. encased
  7. encasement
  8. encasements
  9. encaser
  10. encasers
  11. encases

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