envelopment
- n the act of enclosing something inside something else
- In short, the fall of China, MacArthur observed, had made possible the military threat of a "double envelopment" of Japan.
- To escape the Communists' well-executed envelopment, Nationalist troops began to evacuate Nanking.
- On the first day of the new Allied drive for the Yalu, Douglas MacArthur issued a confident communiqu: "The United Nations massive compression envelopment in North Korea against.