encased

The carcass—containing the head, forelimbs, and front part of the animal—was discovered encased in a chunk of ice in 2020 near the Badyarikha River in northern Siberia, above the Arctic Circle.

But the dinosaur, encased in layers of sediment, is exempt from this endless cycle of growth and decay.

It has encased our vehicle in a virtual bubble that the self-driving trucks "see" and which causes them to manage their proximity by slowing or stopping as necessary.

Her head and arms are encased in bandages.

River was encased in concrete starting in the 1940s in response to a series of major floods.