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envelop

/ɛnˈvɛləp/

envelop verb: to surround, enclose or enfold.

Verb

envelop (third-person singular simple present envelops, present participle enveloping, simple past and past participle enveloped)

  1. (transitive) To surround, enclose or enfold.
    • 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.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, page 165
    • (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4

envelop meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

envelop in Tamil

உறையிடு, சூழ்ந்து கொள், மூடு

envelop in Bengali

ঢেকে ফেলা, মোড়ানো

envelop in Malayalam

to surround or enclose
പൊതിയുക potiyuka

envelop in Kannada

ಲಕೋಟೆ, ಕವರು, ಚೀಲ, ಕೋಶ, ಆವರಣ, ಹೊದಿಕೆ
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envelop in Thai
ห่อหุ้ม

Forms of envelop

third-person singular presentenvelops
present participleenveloping
past participleenveloped
pastenveloped
alternative forminvelop
alternative forminvelope
alternative formenvelope

Past tense of envelop: enveloped

Origin of envelop

From Middle English envolupen, from Old French anveloper, envoluper (modern French envelopper), from en- + voloper, vloper (“to wrap, wrap up”) (compare Italian -viluppare; Old Italian alternative form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vuloppare (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wlappaną, *wrappaną (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) http://www.wordnik.com/words/envelop. Akin to Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, fold”) (Modern English lap (“to wrap, involve, fold”)), Middle English wrappen (“to wrap”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), Danish dialectal vravle (“to wind, twist”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, distort”), Old English wearp (“warp”). Doublet of enwrap.

Words formed from envelop

Questions about envelop

What does envelop mean?
Envelop means to surround, enclose or enfold.
What is envelop in Tamil?
Envelop in Tamil is உறையிடு, சூழ்ந்து கொள், மூடு. See Envelop meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is envelop?
Envelop is a verb.
How do you pronounce envelop?
Envelop is pronounced /ɛnˈvɛləp/.
What is the past tense of envelop?
The past tense of envelop is enveloped.

Words near envelop in the dictionary

  1. enveined
  2. enveining
  3. enveins
  4. envelogram
  5. envelograms
  6. envelop
  7. envelopathies
  8. envelopathy
  9. envelope
  10. envelope detector
  11. envelope detectors

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: envelop (page history and authors); envelop (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Envelop (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); envelop (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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