1. Retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape)
   "Many people engaged in cocooning during the pandemic lockdowns"

1. Retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment
   "Families cocoon around the T.V. set most evenings"; "She loves to stay at home and cocoon"
    
2. Wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection
   "The hikers cocooned themselves in warm sleeping bags"

Derived forms: cocoonings

Type of: enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, retreat, seclusion, wrap

Encyclopedia: Cocooning