encase

present singular third person encases · participle present encasing · participle past encased · past encased · alternative incase

1. To enclose, as in a case.

   And with the story of the booking office, we have a fortune deeply entwined with the stations encasing them.

   2024 March 6, Dr Joseph Brennan, “England's booking offices of distinction”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 61

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   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

   She was a pleasant-looking woman of about forty, with a deep voice, almost manly in its stentorian tones, and had a large sensible square body, with feet to match—these last encased in good thick boots.

   1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 8