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Meaning encircle meaning

What does encircle mean?

encircle

— verb (= circle) form a circle around encircle the errors — verb (= gird) bind with something round or circular

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encircle English » English

surround enclose encompass hem in besiege circle go around gird round up go round ring envelop embrace circumscribe enfold compass about compass beset wrap woo flirt entice court corral wrap around wind around round hug girdle gather around enwrap environ enlace confine coil blockade beleaguer zone wrap round work out winding whirl wall in twine round turn around turn a corner turn trap think over surrounded by

Topics encircle topics

What do people use encircle to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Protect
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Attack
Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Move in a circle

Conjugation encircle conjugation

How do you conjugate encircle?

encircle · verb

Examples encircle examples

How do I use encircle in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Encircle!
If you take, say, 50 H bombs in the 100 megaton range and jacket them with cobalt thorium G when they are exploded, they will produce a doomsday shroud a lethal cloud of radioactivity which will encircle the Earth for 93 years!
We will try to encircle.
For the maximum nutrient value, Axonite must encircle the world within the next 72 hours.
THE HUGE BULL LIMPET, ENRAGED BY THE ROCK ENDEAVORS TO ENCIRCLE ITS SPRIGHTLY OPPONENT.
His plan was to encircle and destroy Soviet armies in the Don bend, drive east towards Stalingrad, and cut off the Caucasus from the rest of the country.
The army wanted to keep pressing ahead to encircle the Russians, but couldn't.
The peasants will encircle their houses with a high fence and shoot at the towns people from their windows.
These two German forces threaten to encircle and cut off our entire army in France.
Prime to Autobots! Encircle the base!
Encircle them!
There can, I think, be no doubt, gentlemen, that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircle the brows of the royal Stuart's.
To encircle would take it all the morning.
As regular Russian military forces move in to encircle Radchenko. allied military forces are in a state ofhigh alert.
Of the thousands that plummet toward us, the greater part are destroyed in a fiery flash as they strike the layers of air that encircle us.
If you take 50 H bombs in the 100 megaton range. and jacket them with cobalt thorium G. when they are exploded, they will produce a doomsday shroud. a lethal cloud of radioactivity. which will encircle the Earth for 93 years!
Approach him slowly, little by little, encircle him.
The huge bull limpet, enraged by the rock Endeavors to encircle its sprightly opponent.
The pylons encircle the entire barracks.
Can we really encircle so much territory?
You don't encircle an elephant, wear it out or force it to surrender.
Barack then announced that he was going to move missile systems into Eastern Europe to encircle Russia.
We just encircle them and not have war?
We encircle the bag.
Encircle them and finish it!
He was a serpent who grew so large he could encircle the earth and swallow his own tail.
But you know only of me through my father, my family the vicious rumors which encircle my life.
Encircle the town, in other words.
We will gradually encircle an area of land in the valley below.
Encircle the house!
With a modified phaser blast we can create a shock front that would encircle the planet and ionize the particles.
If 100 people in New York City got it, you'd have to encircle them with 100 million vaccinated people to contain it.
Grab those men, encircle them from the left.
Encircle the chateau!
Regroup and encircle.
The adults encircle their young.
Assume Slash and Encircle Formation!
I'll encircle the planets of the solar system.
I'll encircle the moons of every planet.

News and current affairs

These radicals view the US invasion of Iraq as reflecting America's desire to encircle Iran.
In the eyes of Chinese nationalists, these efforts were all the part of an American conspiracy to encircle China.
In 1973, at the end of the Yom Kippur War, Israel was poised to encircle the entire Egyptian Third Army in Sinai.

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