encased
/ɛnkˈeɪst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of encase
Example Sentences
- "Whether material or spiritual, this is not the environment we know; even the most encased of physical beings, and the most unexperienced modes of being spiritual, are present to each other in expectation of experience if in no other way."
- ""She was quite stiff," he recalled. "I don't think she really enjoyed it. She felt very encased in her body.""
- "We were not a big huggie family so I was very, very encased in a little stay-away-from-me shell growing-up, and here I got to open up and feel safe and able to touch and hold and be able to be with another human being, which was really a big relief, a very positive part of my understanding of myself that I wasn't just this outcast evil outsider of everything."
Inflected Forms
more encased (comparative)
most encased (superlative)