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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing

Example:

Insert your ticket here

Synonyms:

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "enclose" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enclose"):

inject; shoot (force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing)

foist (insert surreptitiously or without warrant)

slip (insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly)

feed; feed in (introduce continuously)

interlard; intersperse (introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions)

cup (put into a cup)

catheterise; catheterize (insert a catheter into (a body part))

glass (put in a glass container)

inset (set or place in)

inoculate (introduce a microorganism into)

plug (replace the center of a coin with a baser metal)

plug (insert a plug into)

plug (insert as a plug)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

enclosure (something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering

Example:

Fog enveloped the house

Synonyms:

enclose; enfold; envelop; enwrap; wrap

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "enclose" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enclose"):

cover; enshroud; hide; shroud (cover as if with a shroud)

bathe (suffuse or envelope with something)

cocoon (wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection)

sheathe (enclose with a sheath)

engulf (flow over or cover completely)

capsulate; capsule; capsulise; capsulize (enclose in a capsule)

tube (place or enclose in a tube)

benight (envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

enclosing; enclosure (the act of enclosing something inside something else)

enclosure (a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Surround completely

Example:

They closed in the porch with a fence

Synonyms:

close in; enclose; inclose; shut in

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "enclose" is one way to...):

border; environ; ring; skirt; surround (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enclose"):

hedge; hedge in (enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges)

fort; fortify (enclose by or as if by a fortification)

corral (enclose in a corral)

casket (enclose in a casket)

cordon off; rope in; rope off (divide by means of a rope)

fence; fence in (enclose with a fence)

encapsulate (enclose in a capsule or other small container)

dike; dyke (enclose with a dike)

bank (enclose with a bank)

glass; glass in (enclose with glass)

border; frame; frame in (enclose in or as if in a frame)

bury; eat up; immerse; swallow; swallow up (enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing)

case; encase; incase (enclose in, or as if in, a case)

enshrine; shrine (enclose in a shrine)

bower; embower (enclose in a bower)

wall in; wall up (enclose with a wall)

insert; tuck (fit snugly into)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

enclosure (the act of enclosing something inside something else)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Close in

Example:

darkness enclosed him

Synonyms:

confine; enclose; hold in

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "enclose" is one way to...):

bear; carry; contain; hold (contain or hold; have within)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enclose"):

border; bound (form the boundary of; be contiguous to)

embank (enclose with banks, as for support or protection)

rail; rail in (enclose with rails)

box in; box up (enclose or confine as if in a box)

frame (enclose in a frame, as of a picture)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

enclosure (a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose)

enclosure (a naturally enclosed space)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I have the greatest pleasure, my dear Emma, in forwarding to you the enclosed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A volume made up of pages fastened along one edge and enclosed between protective covers.

(Book, NCI Thesaurus)

The smallest units of living structure capable of independent existence, composed of a membrane-enclosed mass of protoplasm and containing a nucleus or nucleoid.

(Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

An object designed to conceal, enclose, cap, or protect something.

(Cover Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

The outermost layer of the membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates.

(Chorion, NCI Thesaurus)

A lipid bilayer enclosing an endosomal compartment.

(Membrane of the Endosome, NCI Thesaurus)

A lipid bilayer enclosing a Golgi compartment.

(Membrane of the Golgi Apparatus, NCI Thesaurus)

An enclosed structural device designed for heating an object.

(Oven Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Viral nucleic acid enclosed by a protein capsid.

(Nucleocapsid Protein, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

It consists of a CAPSID plus enclosed nucleic acid.

(Nucleocapsid Protein, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)