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verb

surround completely
- Darkness enclosed him
- They closed in the porch with a fence
• Syn:
enclose, close in, inclose
• Derivationally related forms:
enclosure (for: enclose)
• Hypernyms:
surround, environ, ring, skirt, border
• Hyponyms:
tuck, insert, wall in, wall up, embower,
bower, enshrine, shrine, encase, incase, case,
immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up, frame,
frame in, border, glass, glass in, bank, dike,
dyke, encapsulate, fence, fence in, rope in, rope off,
rope off, casket, corral, fortify, fort,
hedge, hedge in
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something