COCOONED


Meaning of COCOONED in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kəku:nd ]

1.

If someone is cocooned in blankets or clothes, they are completely wrapped in them.

She is comfortably cocooned in pillows.

...my snugly cocooned baby sleeping in his pram.

ADJ : usu v-link ADJ , oft ADJ in n

2.

If you say that someone is cocooned , you mean that they are isolated and protected from everyday life and problems.

She was cocooned in a private world of privilege...

They were cocooned from the experience of poverty.

= cloistered

ADJ : oft ADJ in/from n

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