adjective. ['ɪnˈvɛləpɪŋ'] surrounding and closing in on or hemming in.
1. Verb, gerund or present participle Set the plastic cylinder on the patch of grass, enveloping it with one open end.
1. Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull. - George Orwell, 1984
