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動詞

enwind (third-person singular simple present enwinds, present participle enwinding, simple past and past participle enwound)

1. (transitive) To wind around (something); to encircle or wrap up.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 29:

     Love, the third,
     Between us, in the circle of his arms
     Enwound us both; […]

   • 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:

     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.

アナグラム

• winned

参照

• “enwind”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.