Definitions for encase

encase en·case

Spelling: [en-keys]
IPA: /ɛnˈkeɪs/

Encase is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in encase (aceens).

Definitions for encase

verb (used with object)

  1. to enclose in or as in a case:

Origin of encase

First recorded in 1625-35; en-1 + case2

Examples for encase

In 1870 it was customary to encase the sandwiches in pressed sole leather.

Her voice was too strong, too assured, to encase in strict rules.

Dante may build up his great triple universe in his great triple rhyme, and encase it in walls of brass.

They also encase almost the entire body in a wooden and leathern armor.

Of course, those spheres also encase it in a petrochemical prison.

They encase it in propolis, which preserves it from putrefaction.

The true method is to encase the building in a network of rods, when it will take its charge quietly like a Leyden jar.

Dick was building an electric heating unit to encase the entire tube, which could be regulated for any desired temperature.

Her patient fairly off her hands, Mona seemed to encase herself with a cold reserve, as in a shell.

Angelo cut a stout cloth to encase each of her feet, and bound them in it.

Word Value for encase
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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