enveloping

1. 1.

   surrounding and closing in on or hemming in

   “the army's enveloping maneuver”

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Questions about enveloping

What does enveloping mean?

enveloping means "surrounding and closing in on or hemming in".

How many syllables are in enveloping?

enveloping has 4 syllables: en-vel-o-ping. The stress falls on "vel". In IPA it is /ɪnˈvɛləpɪŋ/.

Is enveloping a common word?

enveloping is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with enveloping?

1 word rhymes with enveloping. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.