encase

Etymology

From en- + case.

verb

  1. To enclose, as in a case.
    They always appeared to me like asses who gladly incase themselves in lions' skins and cheer themselves with the idea that all the world about them consists also of similarly disguised asses. 1918, Wilhelm Muehlon, The vandal of Europe

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