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English
Etymology
From en- + wind.
Verb
enwind (third-person singular simple present enwinds, present participle enwinding, simple past and past participle enwound)
- (transitive) To wind around (something); to encircle or wrap up.
1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. In Two Volumes.">…], 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.
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