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Adjective encircled has 3 senses
- surrounded, encircled - confined on all sides; "a camp surrounded by enemies"; "the encircled pioneers"
Antonym: unenclosed (indirect, via enclosed)
- encircled - enclosed within a circle; "the encircled camp was complete cut off"
Antonym: unenclosed (indirect, via enclosed)
- encircled, ringed, wreathed - adorned or crowned with a circlet; sometimes used as combining forms; "a brow encircled with laurel"; "wreathed in an extraordinary luminescence"; "ringed round with daisies"; "smoke-wreathed"
Antonyms: unadorned, undecorated (indirect, via adorned)
Verb encircle has 3 senses
- surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring - be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village"
--1 is one way to hold, bear, carry, contain
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- encircle, circle - form a circle around; "encircle the errors"
--2 is one way to shape, form
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- gird, encircle - bind with something round or circular
--3 is one way to bind
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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