Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To hold in a clasp; embrace.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fasten with a clasp.
- To clasp; embrace.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To clasp. See
inclasp .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
hold in (or as if in) aclasp ; toembrace
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Examples
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The banks are charmingly wooded with acacias of many varieties, some thorned like the fabled Zakkum, others parachute-shaped, and planted in impenetrable thickets: huge white creepers, snake-shaped, enclasp giant trees, or connect with their cordage the higher boughs, or depend like cables from the lower branches to the ground.
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Fierce rolling round -- his arms enclasp the child -- God help him yet to save!
Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various
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"I swear to you, my girl, that if women warriors were like the woodman's daughter, I would cast away all arms except these with which to enclasp her."
The Strong Arm Robert Barr 1881
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The banks are charmingly wooded with acacias of many varieties, some thorned like the fabled Zakkum, others parachute-shaped, and planted in impenetrable thickets: huge white creepers, snake-shaped, enclasp giant trees, or connect with their cordage the higher boughs, or depend like cables from the lower branches to the ground.
First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855
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While the strong arms of Union enclasp them around.
Poor Joe Anonymous 1811
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