Encircle
[ɪn'sɜːk(ə)l;en-] or [ɪn'sɝkl]
Definition
(v. t.) To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Surround, encompass, environ, gird, engird, enclose.
Checker: Mattie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Surround, environ, inti, hem, circumscribe, compass, embrace, gird, engird,hem_in, beset, encompass
ANT:Disenclose, disencircle, disencompass
Checker: Rhonda
Definition
v.t. to enclose in a circle: to embrace: to pass round.—n. Encirc′ling.
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Examples
- She sat down on the edge of her patient's bed, and allowed the wasted arms to encircle her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There was something to the English peculiarly attractive in the idea of this wave-encircled, island-enthroned city. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then he unfolded his arms, and held her encircled in one for an instant: 'You do well! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Unquestionably the doctrine-driven men who made the economics of the last century had much to do with the halo which encircled the smutted head of industrialism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His right arm encircled the lion's neck, while the left hand plunged the knife time and again into the unprotected side behind the left shoulder. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Green lawns with flower-beds are before the terrace, and the whole is encircled by the park. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- As Cassy expected, when quite near the verge of the swamps that encircled the plantation, they heard a voice calling to them to stop. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- My arm, as I sat, encircled her waist. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They had risen to their feet, and were standing looking at that solemn altar, so noble in its hugeness amid the encircling green. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A watch balance is made with a rim of brass encircling and firmly united to the rim of steel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Maurice and Justinian were thrown to the ground, and high above, amid the encircling peaks, shot up a mighty column of smoke, streaked with red fire. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Her brother glanced at her face with greater interest than usual, and, encircling her waist with his arm, drew her coaxingly to him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- They met in the little ditch encircling the tumulus--the original excavation from which it had been thrown up by the ancient British people. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A general circulatory motion is in fact established ultimately in one direction about the central mass, which receiving new particl es from the encircling current rotates in harmony with it. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The ridge encircling the screw is called the thread, and the distance between two successive threads is called the pitch. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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