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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enfold
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He shut off the engine and silence enfolded them.
▪ I closed my eyes and lay there for a while, enfolded in darkness.
▪ Macushla! your white arms are reaching, I feel them enfolding caressing me still.
▪ She reached to enfold his long fingers, which were so fragrant from the soaps he still used, and overused.
▪ The wizard screamed as the dark spread and enfolded him.
▪ Their eyes are large with concern and empathy, and everywhere there are enfolding arms.
▪ We held him between us, enfolding him with our arms as he cried.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
enfold

Infold \In*fold"\ (?n-f?ld"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Infolding.] [Pref. in- in + fold.] [Written also enfold.]

  1. To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve.

    Gilded tombs do worms infold.
    --Shak.

    Infold his limbs in bands.
    --Blackmore.

  2. To clasp with the arms; to embrace.

    Noble Banquo, . . . let me infold thee, And hold thee to my heart.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enfold

also infold, early 15c., from en- (1) "make, put in" + fold (n.). Related: Enfolded; enfolding.

Wiktionary
enfold

vb. 1 To fold something around; to envelop 2 To embrace

WordNet
enfold

v. enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house" [syn: envelop, enwrap, wrap, enclose]

Wikipedia
Enfold

Enfold Proactive Health Trust was founded in 2001 by gynecologists Dr. Sangeetha Saksena and Dr. Shaibya Saldanha who, dismayed at the occurrence of preventable health problems in young people, sought to promote health and provide preventive care.

They are a registered trust in Bangalore, India since December 2002.

Enfold Proactive Health Trust aims to counter growing problems like child sexual abuse, sexualization of children, sexuality among adolescents and young adults, HIV/ AIDS and also addresses mental and emotional health of the youth. They work towards building a social environment where each gender is equally valued and respected, and every child is safe.

Usage examples of "enfold".

Blyth, and Zack, till her vast country bonnet trembled aguishly on her head, the good woman advanced, shaking every moveable object in the room, straight to the tea-table, and enfolded Madonna in her capacious arms.

She rose from the carpet as an old amah came to enfold her in a dressing gown.

What follows, then, is a cheerful parable of your being and your becoming, an apologue of that Emptiness which forever issues forth, unfolding and enfolding, evolving and involving, creating worlds and dissolving them, with each and every breath you take.

The familiar smell of lamp oil, leather and sweat enfolded him as he looked down on the sand-covered armory floor where he had spent so many years, first training to be a warrior, then proving over and over to his men that he was the best fighter in the pack.

Tzigone heaved a sigh of profound relief and enfolded Basel in a quick hug.

If she tosses a dice to decide whether to euthanize herself and James while in Q-space so as to enfold herself into psychospace -- by far the best way to choose, namely by chance --and if one of her selves does indeed toss the number for death, then one of her will definitely die but will not have lived in vain, and one of the remainder will survive.

As the Girdlers came up behind her, one creature enfolded her upper arms in its long hands and set her away almost gently.

The hyacinthine torrent of his hair fell loose around them both, an enfolding curtain.

After having enjoyed, until our strength was almost expiring, the most delightful, the most intense voluptuousness in which mutual ardour can enfold two young, vigorous, and passionate lovers, the young countess dressed herself, and, kissing her slippers, said she would never part with them as long as she lived.

While he enfolded many of the rescued rebels, others were lost entirely.

Every monk of Tekke Vogu was enfolded within the Moment, but it was a bargain.

No more does the terebinth tree enfold its house as if it were a nest against the storm.

Its subject is majesty, not tyranny, and its political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one indivisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

Once enfolded in the foggy embrace, Ambry drooped limply, his face lax and expressionless.

The first, being the most obvious, is a protean diversity enfolding multiferous literary forms and, specific to the fiction, demonstrating startling variations of style, texture, and mood.