encase
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- v enclose in, or as if in, a case
my feet were encased in mud
- The Russians might be able to encase the hulk in a glue-like gel that would limit radiation leakage as was done with the submarine Komsomolets after it sank in the Norwegian .
- The magnet recall was unusually large because it includes toys sold as far back as 2002, before Mattel changed its design to encase the magnets in plastic to make them more secure.
- The white matter is composed of fatty myelin sheaths that encase axons and, like insulation on a wire, make nerve-signal transmissions faster and more efficient.