What part of speech is enveloping?

Enveloping can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. enveloping is a verb, gerund of envelop (infinitive).
  • 2. enveloping is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more enveloping
    most enveloping
  • Positive: enveloping 
  • Comparative: more enveloping
  • Superlative: most enveloping

What does enveloping mean?

Definitions

Adjective

enveloping - surrounding and closing in on or hemming in; "the army's enveloping maneuver"

Verb

enveloping - Present participle of envelop.

Examples of enveloping

#   Sentence  
1. adj. The army's enveloping maneuver.
2. noun Test pilots try to push the envelope.
3. noun The spacecraft detected an envelope of gas around the comet.
Sentence  
adj.
The army's enveloping maneuver.
noun
Test pilots try to push the envelope.
The spacecraft detected an envelope of gas around the comet.

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