ENCASE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they encase ... he / she / it encases

Past simple: encased

Past participle: encased

-ing form: encasing

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose in, or as if in, a case

Example:

my feet were encased in mud

Synonyms:

case; encase; incase

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "encase" is one way to...):

close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "encase"):

pack (arrange in a container)

box; package (put into a box)

sack (put in a sack)

crate (put into a crate; as for protection)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

They encase the goods

Derivation:

encasement (the act of enclosing something in a case)

Credits

Context examples:

The mission has not left the solar system — it has yet to reach a final halo of comets surrounding our sun — but it broke through the wind-blown bubble, or heliosphere, encasing our sun.

(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)

A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It is a picture, and I can see it now,—the jagged edges of the hole in the side of the cabin, through which the grey fog swirled and eddied; the empty upholstered seats, littered with all the evidences of sudden flight, such as packages, hand satchels, umbrellas, and wraps; the stout gentleman who had been reading my essay, encased in cork and canvas, the magazine still in his hand, and asking me with monotonous insistence if I thought there was any danger; the red-faced man, stumping gallantly around on his artificial legs and buckling life-preservers on all comers; and finally, the screaming bedlam of women.