Definitions for envelopment

envelopment en·vel·op·ment

Spelling: [en-vel-uh p-muh nt]
IPA: /ɛnˈvɛl əp mənt/

Envelopment is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 325 anagrams from letters in envelopment (eeelmnnoptv).

Definitions for envelopment

noun

  1. an act of enveloping.
  2. the state of being enveloped.
  3. a wrapping or covering.
  4. Military. an attack on an enemy's flank.

Origin of envelopment

First recorded in 1755-65; envelop + -ment

Examples for envelopment

They performed an envelopment of the gentlemen and ladies, including the two young women.

For the rest, the three hours that followed sunrise I remember chiefly as a period of envelopment by clouds, and ever more clouds.

Nothing but the news of the armistice of Leoben saved him from envelopment and surrender.

This was to elude a successful German envelopment on their Louvain right.

An envelopment of both flanks should never be attempted without a very decided superiority in numbers.

Enveloping attacks result in local frontal attacks; advantage of envelopment.

She did not threaten Lydia with envelopment in her richness of velvet and fur.

In other words, the enemy's centre was never caught and destroyed by the envelopment of his flanks.

Colli, outnumbered by two to one and threatened with envelopment, Mondovi.

I wish, for once, Washington could come out of his envelopment and show us what his real dimensions were.

Word Value for envelopment
Scrable

18

Words with friends

24

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