encased

English

Adjective

encased (comparative more encased, superlative most encased)

1. Enclosed; existing within a container.
   • 2015, Christopher Berry Gray, Being A Primer:

     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.

   • 2016, Arthur Lubow, Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer, page 25:

     "She was quite stiff," he recalled. "I don't think she really enjoyed it. She felt very encased in her body."

   • 2019, Victor C. de Munck, Romantic Love in America, page 152:

     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.

Derived terms

• unencased

Verb

encased

1. simple past and past participle of encase

Anagrams

• candees, decanes, seanced, séanced