enwind en · VERB
Etymology
From en- + wind.
Meanings
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(transitive) To wind around (something); to encircle or wrap up.
Prais’d be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:Love, the third, Between us, in the circle of his arms Enwound us both; […]
1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 29:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| enwinds | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| enwound | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| enwound | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| enwinding | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |