infold

• enfold

From Middle English infolden, equivalent to in- +‎ fold.

infold (third-person singular simple present infolds, present participle infolding, simple past and past participle infolded)

1. (transitive) To fold inwards.
2. (transitive) To wrap up or inwrap; involve; inclose; enfold or envelop.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto V:

     In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er,
     ⁠Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
     ⁠But that large grief which these enfold
     Is given in outline and no more.

3. (transitive) To clasp with the arms; embrace.
   • 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:

     Prais’d be the fathomless universe, / For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, / And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise! / For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.