Meaning & use
Cocooned
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Wrapped or sheltered protectively, as if enclosed in a cocoon, often to the point of being isolated from the outside world.
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Wrapped in blankets, she felt cocooned against the winter chill.
Living in the small mountain town, they felt pleasantly cocooned from the chaos of the city.
A note on using this word
The figurative sense of "cocooned," meaning comfortably sheltered or isolated, comes directly from the literal image of a caterpillar wrapped and protected inside its cocoon.
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2. adjective
Enclosed in a cocoon, as an insect larva preparing to metamorphose.
The caterpillar remained cocooned for nearly two weeks before emerging as a moth.
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