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sheathe
v.
put into a sheath (of a dagger, sword, etc.); place within a casing; cover, coat
sheathed
Adjective
1. enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination; "his sheathed sword"; "the cat's sheathed claws"; "a ship's bottom sheathed in copper"; "copper-sheathed"
(antonym) unsheathed, bare
(similar) cased, encased, incased
sheathe
Verb
1. cover with a protective sheathing; "sheathe her face"
(hypernym) cover
(hyponym) invaginate
(derivation) sheathing, overlay, overlayer
2. enclose with a sheath; "sheathe a sword"
(antonym) unsheathe
(hypernym) envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose
3. plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh
(hypernym) immerse, plunge
Sheathed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Sheathe
(a.)
Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
(a.)
Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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sheathed
Synonyms and related words:
armored, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, coped, covered, covert, cowled, curtained, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, filmed, floored, hooded, housed, loricate, loricated, mantled, masked, muffled, obscured, occulted, packaged, paved, roofed-in, screened, scummed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled, walled-in, wrapped
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
SHEATHED
RINFODERATO. FODERATO. RIVESTITO. INGUAINATO