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S: (v) envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose (enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering) "Fog enveloped the house"
S: (v) enclose, hold in, confine (close in) "darkness enclosed him"
S: (v) enclose, close in, inclose, shut in (surround completely) "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence"

S: (v) surround, environ, ring, skirt, border (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle) "The forest surrounds my property"

S: (v) fringe (decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe) "fur fringed the hem of the dress"
S: (v) girdle, gird (put a girdle on or around) "gird your loins"
S: (v) cloister (surround with a cloister) "cloister the garden"
S: (v) enclose, close in, inclose, shut in (surround completely) "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence"
S: (v) hem in (surround in a restrictive manner) "The building was hemmed in by flowers"
S: (v) cloister (surround with a cloister, as of a garden)

S: (v) insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce (place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing) "Insert your ticket here"

S: (v) glass (put in a glass container)
S: (v) catheterize, catheterise (insert a catheter into (a body part)) "catheterize the patient's bladder"
S: (v) cup (put into a cup) "cup the milk"
S: (v) intersperse, interlard (introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions)
S: (v) feed, feed in (introduce continuously) "feed carrots into a food processor"
S: (v) slip (insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly) "He slipped some money into the waiter's hand"
S: (v) foist (insert surreptitiously or without warrant)
S: (v) inject, shoot (force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing) "inject hydrogen into the balloon"