Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to envelop
Participle: envelopped
Gerund: envelopping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | envelop |
| you | envelop |
| he;she;it | envelops |
| we | envelop |
| you | envelop |
| they | envelop |
Perfect
| I | have envelopped |
| you | have envelopped |
| he;she;it | has envelopped |
| we | have envelopped |
| you | have envelopped |
| they | have envelopped |
Past
| I | envelopped |
| you | envelopped |
| he;she;it | envelopped |
| we | envelopped |
| you | envelopped |
| they | envelopped |
Pluperfect
| I | had envelopped |
| you | had envelopped |
| he;she;it | had envelopped |
| we | had envelopped |
| you | had envelopped |
| they | had envelopped |
Future
| I | will envelop |
| you | will envelop |
| he;she;it | will envelop |
| we | will envelop |
| you | will envelop |
| they | will envelop |
Future Perfect
| I | will have envelopped |
| you | will have envelopped |
| he;she;it | will have envelopped |
| we | will have envelopped |
| you | will have envelopped |
| they | will have envelopped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | envelop |
| you | envelop |
| he;she;it | envelop |
| we | envelop |
| you | envelop |
| they | envelop |
Perfect
| I | have envelopped |
| you | have envelopped |
| he;she;it | have envelopped |
| we | have envelopped |
| you | have envelopped |
| they | have envelopped |
Imperfect
| I | envelopped |
| you | envelopped |
| he;she;it | envelopped |
| we | envelopped |
| you | envelopped |
| they | envelopped |
Pluperfect
| I | had envelopped |
| you | had envelopped |
| he;she;it | had envelopped |
| we | had envelopped |
| you | had envelopped |
| they | had envelopped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would envelop |
| you | would envelop |
| he;she;it | would envelop |
| we | would envelop |
| you | would envelop |
| they | would envelop |
Perfect
| I | would have envelopped |
| you | would have envelopped |
| he;she;it | would have envelopped |
| we | would have envelopped |
| you | would have envelopped |
| they | would have envelopped |
Imperative
| you | envelop |
| we | Let's envelop |
| you | envelop |
Verbs conjugated like 'envelop'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'envelop'
envelope,
develop,
envenom,
envolup,
develope,
disenvelop,
disvelop,
echelon,
encolor,
enhalo,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English envolupen, from Old French anveloper, envoluper (modern French envelopper), from en- + voloper, vloper (“to wrap, wrap up”) (compare Italian -viluppare; Old Italian alternative form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vuloppare (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wlappaną, *wrappaną (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) http://www.wordnik.com/words/envelop. Akin to Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, fold”) (Modern English lap (“to wrap, involve, fold”)), Middle English wrappen (“to wrap”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), Danish dialectal vravle (“to wind, twist”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, distort”), Old English wearp (“warp”). Doublet of enwrap. See: Italian '
viluppare'.
Sample Sentences
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Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist of evening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and the swollen current and floundering masses of ice presented a hopeless barrier between her and her pursuer. Haley therefore slowly and discontentedly returned [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] most anything, Missis, ” said Dinah. So it appeared to be. From the variety it contained, Miss Ophelia pulled out first a fine damask table-cloth stained with blood, having evidently been used to envelop some raw meat.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] negress, whose thin arms and callous fingers tell of hard toil, waiting to be sold tomorrow, as a cast-off article, for what can be got for her; and some forty or fifty others, with heads variously enveloped in blankets or articles of clothing, lie stretched around them. But, in a corner, sitting apart from the rest, are two females of a more interesting appearance than common. One of these is a [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)