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Answer for the clue "Completely covered ", 9 letters:
enveloped

Word definitions for enveloped in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. completely enclosed or swallowed up; "a house engulfed in flames"; "the fog-enveloped cliffs"; "a view swallowed by night" [syn: engulfed , swallowed ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: envelop )

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
enveloped \enveloped\ adj. enclosed or surrounded completely; as, the fog-enveloped city.

Usage examples of enveloped.

A cold, clammy sweat had enveloped his body the moment he realised his latest pursuer was not Romanov.

I walked through the old stone gate and was instantly enveloped in comforting darkness.

His native town was enveloped in smoke, and on the spot where his home had been, where he had grown up and where his mother had lived, reared a bare, sooty, monstrous chimney, like this one here.

Alexei felt as though he were enveloped in a dense, hot mist, through which he could obtain only a hazy picture of what was going on.

Sooty, suffocating flames enveloped the tank, but the crew remained in action.

In the evenings, when mist enveloped the huge construction project, the builders would withdraw into their barracks, close the windows and light smoky fires of damp twigs outside the doors to drive away the swarms of mosquitoes and gnats which filled the air with a sinister, high-pitched buzzing.

In the clear light Of that bright May morning, Moscow loomed on the horizon like a heap of grey piles enveloped in mist.

The platform, with only a few passengers, was soon enveloped in fragrant evening repose.

Before the roar of the artillery preparation that raged on a front of several tens of kilometres died down, the Germans, deafened by the thunder of their own batteries and blinded by the gunpowder smoke that enveloped their positions, saw the red balls of the explosions in their own trenches.

The ploughing, now in full swing, enveloped him in a vague, slowmoving whirl of things.

She was just going in at the doorway, and a great flame of the sunset, shooting in under the eaves of the porch, enveloped her from her head, with its thick, moist hair that hung low over her neck, to her slim feet, setting a golden flash in the little steel buckles of her low shoes.

No fanciful wreath of tube-roses was about her head now, no strange garment of red and gold enveloped her now.

Clouds had come, shortly after noon, to obliterate the bright morning sun, and a damp chill had enveloped the castle.