The Collaborative International Dictionary
enveloping \enveloping\ adj. 1. surrounding closely on all sides.
Syn: ambient, encompassing, surrounding(prenominal).
enveloping \enveloping\ n. the act or process of enclosing something inside something else.
Syn: enclosure, enclosing, envelopment, inclosure.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of envelop English)
WordNet
adj. surrounding and closing in on or hemming in; "the army's enveloping maneuver" [syn: enveloping(a)]
Usage examples of "enveloping".
Enlarged with each successive year, by 1905 it had expanded into a huge enveloping right-wing sweep in which the German armies would cross Belgium from Liege to Brussels before turning southward, where they could take advantage of the open country of Flanders, to march against France.
His mind was on that searing, gut-wrenching moment when he first entered her, feeling the small resistance of her tight flesh, the giving, the enveloping, then the wet, clasping heat and his senses exploding.
Claire went to sleep right away, sinking into the enveloping blackness and welcoming it.
She sucked in her breath and moved beneath him, taking him completely into her and enveloping nun in her sweet heat.
His hard hands closed gently on her shoulders, and somehow she found herself lying on her back again, and he was lying beside her, the heat of his big body searing and enveloping her as he folded her close to him.
She fought her way free of the enveloping chador and didn't even notice the hot cartridge shell that immediately skimmed her right cheek.
Standing pressed like sardines in the line, she felt him like a warm and solid wall at her back, his arms slightly extended so that his hands rested on the seat backs, enveloping her in security.
She was hot and damp and tight, her inner flesh enveloping and clasping.
Always jealous of his authority, he told Lanrezac, “The responsibility of stopping the enveloping movement is not yours.
The enemy would be left to complete his enveloping maneuver unopposed.
Berthelot said to him comfortingly, “If the Germans commit the imprudence of an enveloping maneuver through northern Belgium, so much the better!
Joffre’s immediate problem was to halt the retreat of his own armies while at the same time shifting weight to the left to create a force strong enough to check the enemy’s enveloping movement and be “capable of resuming the offensive.
Such was their Commander’s anxiety to remove them from the danger of von Kluck’s enveloping arm that he gave them no rest.
Kluck gave orders to halt until next day, when he expected the enveloping maneuver of his right-wing corps to take effect.
Though a deviation from the original strategy, Kluck’s plan to ignore Paris and go after the retreating armies was the “correct” solution now that it appeared to him possible to annihilate the French Armies in the field without enveloping Paris.