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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
encase
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the cool grape leaves that encase the rice like gift wrapping are fork tender.
▪ He was encased in a great deal of expensive burgundy metal, and his car was coming right at me.
▪ In some forms, the whole of the head and body was encased in a cuirass of bony plates.
▪ It's encased in concrete and steel and will stay in place for tens of years.
▪ The iron lung encased Virginia in a vacuum.
▪ To protect power station workers from this invisible threat the reactor core has to be encased behind many metres of thick concrete.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Encase

Encase \En*case"\, v. t. [Cf. Enchase.] To inclose in or as if in a case. See Incase.
--Beau. & Fl.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
encase

1630s, from en- (1) "make, put in" + case (n.2). Related: Encased; encasing.

Wiktionary
encase

vb. To enclose, as in a case.

WordNet
encase

v. enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud" [syn: incase, case]

Wikipedia
EnCase

EnCase is the shared technology within a suite of digital investigations products by Guidance Software. The software comes in several products designed for forensic, cyber security, security analytics, and e-discovery use. The company also offers EnCase training and certification.

Data recovered by EnCase has been used in various court systems, such as in the cases of the BTK Killer and the murder of Danielle van Dam.

Usage examples of "encase".

By right, as an old friend who had found the airman in the forest, Seryonka was walking solemnly in front of the stretcher, laboriously pulling his feet, encased in the huge felt boots left him by his father, out of the snow and sternly scolding the other white-toothed, grimy-faced, fantastically ragged boys.

There was this lump of iron that I had dragged all the way back from the Galactic West, encased in aluminum and neutronium and alnico magnets, hanging there in its orbit, quite useless, so far, but potentially extremely useful.

A few of the smallest were encased in cour bouilli, with enameled disks of metals sunk into the wax-boiled leather as decoration and mark of ownership of the personage for whom the chest had been originally wrought.

Of all the things those hours of thought had stirred in her mind to say to him, nothing seemed poised and able to cut through the hard and brilliant shell which always, as long as she had known him, encased the great and clever Brule Hatterick.

Anderson moved and Gabe saw the outline of a much smaller person still encased in caving gear.

The entire length of his massive frame had been encased in plasteel and ceramite yet he did not feel too much different.

He felt the cool ceramite gauntlets encasing his fingers, and the hilt of the bolt pistol in his hand.

A half-corset encased her ribs, its cupless top pushing her breasts into firm mounds of delightful brown-tipped meat.

Ra-May stood encased in a ball of light, her magically erected shield causing the shadows to cringe from her.

Before she realized what was happening, she was encased by a power emitting from the tree.

It remained unused, gathering dust while it lay in wait, encased in the old leather of its sheath, until it once again rested in the hand of its rightful owner, the first male child born to the Royal bloodline in 13 or 14 generations.

With what little remaining strength he possessed, he encased himself in the glow of a magical web.

His body then slumped down to the floor, to the right and not far from the encased Finley and Malcolm.

Trenae, Dod, and Jenny, desiring to finish with the men, and planted himself in a central area, to view all the hemoom prodoh encased men.

His golden brown beard was well groomed, his legs, encased in tight hose, were long and muscular.