(v. t.) To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
(v. t.) To amass.
(v. t.) To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment.
(v. t.) To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts.
(v. t.) To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thorny issues of racism on the catwalk, of the impact of fashion on our relationship with food, of the decreasing relevance of the traditional catwalk show in the digital age, and of the bloated size of the fashion industry are the topics engrossing the front row.
(2) By abusing his power, he was engrossed in irregularities and corruption, had improper relations with several women and was wined and dined at back parlours of deluxe restaurants.
(3) Jérôme Boucer, who was engrossed in the gig nearer the stage, assumed the “pop, pop, pop” sound was part of the show – a firecracker perhaps.
(4) In 90 engrossing minutes came comedy, controversy, drama, breathtaking moments and an eye-catching turn from the star protagonist himself.
(5) His efforts have included telling the country’s top internet official on a visit to Facebook’s California headquarters in 2014 that he was engrossed in the collected speeches of the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.
(6) "This conduct is gross disservice to Chinua Achebe and disrespectful of the life-engrossing occupation known as literature.
(7) Anyone interested in Eritrea should read Michela Wrong’s engrossing book, I Didn’t Do it For You , which chronicles the country’s turbulent history from its days as an Italian colony, its time as a UN trust territory, and its 30-year struggle for independence from Ethiopia.
(8) For much of the watching world, the contest between these competing views has been far more engrossing than anything on the pitch.
(9) Under Hyman, Serco became steadily engrossed by its own financial performance.
(10) "Strong characters coupled with delicately woven personal and political storylines have kept our audiences hooked on a Saturday night, and the final season will be equally as engrossing," promised Richard Klein, controller of BBC Four.
(11) And while the scene the duchess saw in production was "not really a dramatic scene," the actor admitted, Camilla, who described herself as an addict of the series, seemed engrossed.
(12) It is easy to see why players bounce off Klopp and indeed it was tempting to wonder if Chelsea’s despondent players were casting the occasional envious glance at the German, whose energetic and engrossing touchline demeanour offered a welcome shade of light next to José Mourinho ’s dark scowl.
(13) Protection for women riders Whilst the UCI have spent the past 10 years trying to defend the indefensible Armstrong position, with time wasting actions such as suing Paul Kimmage for libel after Kimmage dared to bring their "good name" into disrepute; whilst they have been so engrossed trying to find receipts for the equipment they bought after Lance made donations to them and suing Floyd Landis after he blew the whistle and holding press conferences calling Landis a liar.
(14) Extra-time had more grit than grace, as it became clear that a single chance would probably be enough to win an engrossing but never wide open game.
(15) Some of these engineering objects engross the mollusks's population.
(16) Down-time outside work is an engrossing movie, and a jog or game of squash, plus quality time with my family.
(17) He had found an absorbing occupation, engrossed in ideas and causes, peopled by intellectuals and writers from other backgrounds.
(18) Rosewater is an engrossing and pacy film that tells the true story of Iranian-born journalist Maziar Bahari , who was arrested and tortured in Iran in 2009, after sending footage of street riots to the BBC.
(19) Richard Herring is also back for what must be approaching his thousandth fringe, with a revival of his engrossing todger-based spectacular Talking Cock.
(20) Frantic, ridiculous and utterly engrossing, it's available via eShop, PSN and Xbox Live.
Enwrap
Definition:
(v. t.) To envelop. See Inwrap.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most distal acini consist of cells whose major feature is the enwrapment of each mitochondrion by a cisternal profile of rough endoplasmic reticulum.
(2) Their processes accompany and enwrap neuroendocrine axons that course from hypothalamic nuclei to terminals in the median eminence, but the significance of this interaction is not yet understood.
(3) The latter structures consist of nanometer-sized magnetite (Fe3O4) cores which are enwrapped by a phospholipid bilayer.
(4) It contains an acidic N-terminal domain and two distinct domains at the C-terminal end that are involved in binding to the polymerase protein and the template RNA enwrapped with the nucleocapsid protein.
(5) Cadaveric dissections demonstrated how reduction of the radial head can be blocked by an enwrapped nerve.
(6) In 10-15-day-old animals these cells may be located at a distance of 15 micrometer or more from the axon which they enwrap.
(7) By means of electron microscopy, satellite cell processes in the superior cervical ganglion were found to enwrap ganglion cells very tightly with a marginal space between both cell types.
(8) The cytoplasmic processes of reticular cells enwrapped the smooth-muscle cells, and nerve fibres were distributed between the smooth-muscle cells and the reticular cells.
(9) Myelin is a highly specialized membrane, which enwraps axons and facilitates saltatory nerve conduction in vertebrates.
(10) During the early myelination, one single axon ensheathed concentrically by two different oligodendroglial processes as well as several axons enwrapped by a continuous spiral myelin sheath of one oligodendroglial cell were frequently observed.
(11) The potential for both Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas to enwrap both renal and non-renal tissues has not previously been emphasised.
(12) This report also describes electron microscopic observations of Müller cells and their enwrapping relationship with the axons of the optic nerve fiber layer.
(13) Nerve branches associated with pheromone gland cells are enwrapped in glia and contain dense-core vesicles, suggesting that the innervation of the gland might be neurosecretory.
(14) Intracellular naked vaccinia virus was enwrapped by Golgi membranes to form a double membrane intermediate.
(15) The astrocytic "marker," glial fibrillary acidic protein, was detected in gray and white matter of shiverers as young as 16 days, and the differences from carbonic anhydrase localization supported the conclusion that the processes enwrapping axons in the shiverer mouse CNS are derived from oligodendrocytes, not astrocytes.
(16) P. oligandrum produces numerous thin haustorial threads, searching the hyphae of host species and enwrapping them during the parasitation.
(17) In the other corner you have a serial abuser of women so enwrapped in hedonism that at this point he’s more famous for publicly flaunting his bottomless pit of a bank account than his undefeated professional record.
(18) This correlation suggests an evolutionary trend from gluco- to galactocerebrosides, which corresponds with changes in the nervous system from loosely structured membrane-enwrapped axons to multilamellar highly structured myelin.
(19) In a later parasitation stage the host organs were enwrapped by thicker hyphae of P. oligandrum as well.
(20) The outer capsule is thin, composing of few layers, and the inner capsule ramifying to enwrap the individual fiber, accompanied by the medullated and unmedullated nerve fibers and blood capillaries.