Encompass
[ɪn'kʌmpəs;en-]
Definition
(v. t.) To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world.
Typist: Nathaniel
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Surround, environ, compass, gird, engird, encircle, enclose.[2]. Invest, beset, besiege, hem in, wall in, lay siege to.
Checker: Lyman
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ENCIRCLE]
Typed by Claire
Definition
v.t. to surround or enclose: (obs.) to go round.—n. Encom′passment.
Typed by Felix
Examples
- You may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which encompass me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And so he struggled to encompass a similar hold with the left hand, and in a few moments Terkoz's bull neck was creaking beneath a full-Nelson. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The words environment, medium denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow; yet a second step is taken towards my enterprise. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Your suspense is nearly ended, my darling; he shall be restored to you within a few hours; I have encompassed him with every protection. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I encompassed it almost round, before I could find a convenient place to land in; which was a small creek, about three times the wideness of my canoe. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Then came the tale of hair-breadth escapes, combats with dogs, ambush and flight, as gipsey-like we encompassed our pot. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Darkness encompassed them. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- What to do we knew not --the breakers here, there, everywhere, encompassed us--they roared, and dashed, and flung their hated spray in our faces. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which encompass me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And so he struggled to encompass a similar hold with the left hand, and in a few moments Terkoz's bull neck was creaking beneath a full-Nelson. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The words environment, medium denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Checked by Desmond