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To shut in all around
confine, contain, surround, hem in, encircle, encompass, envelop, close in, shut in, circumscribe, corral, impound, blockade, picket, block off, fence in, fence off, set apart, lock up, imprison, immure, intern, jail, shut up, lock in, cage, drive in, keep in, build in, box in, rail in, wall in, box off, box up, bottle up, freeze over; see also surround 1, 2.
Antonyms free, liberate, open.
To put in an envelope, wrapper, etc.
insert, include, wrap up, implant; see embed 1, include 2.

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verb

To surround and advance upon:
besiege, close in, envelop, hedge, hem. See open
To confine within a limited area:
cage, coop (in or up), fence (in), immure, mew (up), pen², shut in, shut up, wall (in or up). See free

See enclose in American Heritage Dictionary 4 Synonyms

enclose cage coop fence hem ¹pen ²wall

These verbs mean to surround and confine within a limited area: cattle enclosed in feedlots; was caged in the office all afternoon; was cooped up in a studio apartment; a garden fenced in by shrubbery; a battalion hemmed in by enemy troops; ships penned up in the harbor; prisoners who were walled in.

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