The army's enveloping maneuver.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : The long cloak she was wearing enveloped her completely.    From Dictionary.com. 

I doubt there will be any pressure in enveloping another town around here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - Lost counties, cities, and towns of Virginia.] Reference

In composition, an intensive particle, or conveys the idea of enveloping with cords.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1] Reference

At present, chocolate has to be heated and put in moulds in order to shape it or else, in a process called enveloping, it is poured or dribbled over items like biscuits or cakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

My shirt was a kind of enveloping sky wetly wrapping my goosy skin, and across which, at intervals, hot winds from Africa and Arctic blizzards blew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cider With Rosie]

Then I felt a kind of enveloping heat and, at the same time, a sensation as if the cot had dropped away from beneath me, and I was floating in a sea of warmth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Blade]

The practice of "enveloping" bloomed in the late 1990s, a time of dirty money and a turbulent stock market.    From Wordnik.com.  [neweurasia.net] Reference

And it hasn't returned, in the kind of enveloping, huge, awful way that it was with me for the first several months of 2009.    From Wordnik.com.  [One More Thing] Reference

Her enveloping white apron was splashed and soaked with blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

The women all love him, with laughter, applause, enveloping warmth.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old Sweet Song] Reference

The red flames seemed to leap out at him, enveloping him, smothering him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

The seas enveloping the greater part of the globe looked like writhing serpents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference

But that doesn't mean there will be a small-car craze enveloping the U.S. market.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road Ahead for Cars] Reference

Then from the midst of the enveloping mass came the sound of a steady "chug-chug.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference

  So Mann was late then, and ill-laced, in the noise of this all-enveloping gloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [zola V mann] Reference

Rain fell in torrents, making the roads a mass of slush and enveloping everything in.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

Hopelessness was stealthily enveloping her spirit, but she resolutely fought it down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Ace] Reference

And so I found this piece sort of hypnotically enveloping, and I love that we featured it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Of 'Song Of The Day'] Reference

Her duty was to serve as heretofore, but lurking love rose up in mighty flame enveloping her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

The attacks did not even change the subject: they became part of the subject of his enveloping troubles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contagious Clintonitis] Reference

By 9: 15 p.m., as darkness was enveloping the East Coast, Kennedy was flying along the Connecticut shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jfk Jr.'S Final Journey] Reference

The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defense Of Pius Xii] Reference

Lesson Three is the importance of family, starting with his own and ending with the all-enveloping U.S. Army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Powell On The March] Reference

Liz Taylor's assortment of diseases and disorders, the progression of the hood enveloping Paul Newman's eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke and Mirrors] Reference

He is at his best, and most comfortable, when enveloping the opposition in a great, sloppy, suffocating embrace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Affirmative Inaction?] Reference

By some counts, it'll take just two decades to perfect the all-enveloping, visual-auditory-tactile virtual environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Was It Virtually Good For You?] Reference

  She realizes that the guttural roar enveloping them is not rushing water, but the collective hissing of the vultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Badlands] Reference

"Twin Peaks" does that with a vengeance, from its dark, slated photography to the enveloping score by Angelo Badalamenti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Wrapped In Plastic: 'Twin Peaks' Turns 20] Reference

Other footage is shot from behind the musicians, offering panoramic, enveloping views of the crowd in all in its enormity.    From Wordnik.com.  [U-should-see U2 in 3D] Reference

Does the desperation waft off the e-mails in waves, enveloping the whole office in its fetid cloud of amateurish inferiority?.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Turn: Fear and Loathing on The 'My Turn' Trail] Reference

Thirty seconds and I was a hundred feet out, treading water in enveloping quietude, save the sound of the gently moving ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vacation] Reference

Moeller held the ridge for some time, but the enemy enveloping his right, he ordered the force to fall back across the Spruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

Driving the Venza is an enveloping experience, with a high dashboard and fairly short windows – again, not really sedan-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toyota Venza: Wagon? No!] Reference

"On the twentieth of May," continued Jacques, enveloping the fascinating countenance of Belle-bouche with his melancholy glance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

The mud is covered over at once by the oyster with a thin layer of shelly matter, thus enveloping the worm, together with its mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

On the 14th we closed in, enveloping the town on its north and west, and during the 15th we had a day of continual battle and skirmish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The children's weeping is the one thread of hope - faint but insistent - in this all-enveloping bad dream, the feel-bad movie of the year.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Life During Wartime': Squirm-Worthy Storytelling] Reference

After he finished his remarks, he began working the room, shaking hands, grabbing shoulders, enveloping the guests in his inescapable hugs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fearless Commitment] Reference

But, I told the group, my parents had created an enveloping family environment that gave sustenance, structure and discipline to our lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Service Matters] Reference