enfolds
enfolds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of enfold.
Meaning of enfold
Verb
enfold (third-person singular simple present enfolds, present participle enfolding, simple past and past participle enfolded)
- To envelop and wrap up something.
- In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
But that large grief which these enfold
Is given in outline and no more.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
- In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er,
- To clasp with the arms; embrace.
- Prais’d be the fathomless universe, / For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, / And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise! / For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
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