Other forms: enfolded, enfolding, enfolds
To enfold is to wrap something round and hold it close. Arms, a blanket, a fog coming in off the sea.
The word is literary and warm, and it nearly always involves an embrace of some kind: enfolded in his arms, enfolded in a shawl. It differs from wrap in feeling rather than action, since enfolding suggests protection. It takes in. Darkness and mist enfold things in writing far more often than in speech, and the plainer everyday words are wrap and surround.
1verbenfoldTo wrap something or someone up and hold them close.
“She enfolded the child in her coat.”
Middle English
infolden
English, today
enfold
Alteration of earlier infold, from Middle English infolden, equivalent to en- + fold.
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