encase
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
enclose in, or as if in, a case
my feet were encased in mud
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- encasement derivation
- case derivation
- display case derivation
- casing derivation
- sheath derivation
- caseful derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | encasement |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | case |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | display case |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | casing |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sheath |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | caseful |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | inclose |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pack |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | box |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sack |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | crate |