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Answer for the clue "Swaddle ", 6 letters:
enwrap

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Word definitions for enwrap in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house" [syn: envelop , enfold , wrap , enclose ] [also: enwrapping , enwrapped ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enwrap \En*wrap"\, v. t. To envelop. See Inwrap .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also inwrap , late 14c., from en- (1) "make, put in" + wrap (v.). Related: Enwrapped ; enwrapping .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To wrap around, surround; to envelop 2 To absorb completely or engross

Usage examples of enwrap.

Shadows weaved before the windows, while the flames seemed to reach out and enwrap every portion of the upper floor.

Trenco, then can burrow in its mud, from which they derive part of their sustenance, they can emerge therefrom into the sunlight, they can, undamaged float in or roll along before the ever-present Trenconian wind, and they can enwrap, entangle, or otherwise seize and hold anything with which they come in contact which by any chance may prove edible.

The room seemed to have turned to a thick white substance like a cloud, in which he lay enwrapped, unable to move hand or foot.

The dew-grey cobwebs enwrapped the flowers of their hearts--yet every prisoned flower could be seen.

The first invested him reverently with the headphones, the second so enwrapped his head in black cloth that it was apparent to all observers that his vision was completely obscured.

The dampness of his shirt clung to the sculpting of his broad back, emphasizing the smooth glide of the bands of muscle that enwrapped his upper body.

She hurtled down and down into darkness with the cloth that enwrapped her flapping around her.

It was the sky here, dark, heavy and menacing, showing no star as it ebon folds enwrapped this grim city.

For the earth bubbled and seethed where the potion spilled, and a soft green glow enwrapped the leaning stalks of wheat.

In the harmony divine Of an ever-lengthening line Which enwrapped her perfect form With a beauty clear and warm.

Groping as though blinded, the burning form of the man weaved a moment before a window, clawing in a futile attempt to open it, the flames, which seemed to leap from every portion of his body, enwrapping him.

Lot stiffened within the enwrapping cells, knowing it had come from him.

The closest of the thin windows, mostly lead and iron enwrapping bits of colored glass, had been cracked open.

And I once again enwrapped all that hot limber skill, endured her delighted chuckling, romped her onto her spring-steel spine, and tried in my endless, mindless, idiot frenzy to hammer her down through the damn silk sheets, down through the foam and springs, down through the carpeting and the tile and the beams and down into the deep black Mexican soil under the lovely and formal old house, where I could be buried without fanfare and sleep forever and ever and ever.

The telecine screen lit with a picture of an engineer enwrapped in layers of videotape as he spooled frantically through an antique videotape recorder, attempting to clear a jam.