enwreathed

verb

past tense of enwreathe
as in tied up

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  1. tied up
  2. circled
  3. wound
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  • If city agencies coordinated security, traffic planning or other logistics for an event that never took place there, critics could question whether public resources were unnecessarily tied up during one of New York's busiest holiday weekends.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Germany 0, Paraguay 0 Germany and Paraguay are all tied up after 120-plus minutes of action and are headed to a penalty shootout.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 30 June 2026
Definition of tied up
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  • Holloway has spent the decade since assembling one of the great featherweight résumés in company history, which is why a fight nobody circled in 2013 now headlines the biggest week on the UFC calendar.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • As astronauts circled the Earth, aquanauts moved into seafloor labs.
    — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
Definition of circled
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  • He is believed to be in hiding after reportedly being wounded in the airstrike that killed his father.
    — Nasser Karimi, Fortune, 5 July 2026
  • He reportedly was wounded in the attack that killed his father and has not been seen publicly since the war began.
    — NASSER KARIMI, Arkansas Online, 5 July 2026
Definition of wound
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“Enwreathed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enwreathed. Accessed 9 Jul. 2026.

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