The AI-powered English dictionary
third-person singular simple present enwinds, present participle enwinding, simple past and past participle enwound
(transitive) To wind about (something); to encircle. quotations examples
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, […], page 29
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