1. to wrap or bind with or as if with a bandage or cloth
Usage: formal; literary

Examples

• The nurse enswathed the patient’s injured arm in clean bandages.
• Fog enswathed the mountain peaks in the early morning.
• The mother enswathed her newborn baby in soft blankets.
• Ancient mummies were enswathed in linen strips.
• The old castle was enswathed in ivy and climbing vines.
• She enswathed her head in a warm scarf against the cold wind.