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encircle

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Etymology

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Fromen- +‎circle.

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encircle (third-person singular simple presentencircles,present participleencircling,simple past and past participleencircled)

  1. (transitive) Tosurround, form acircle around.
    • 1983 February 5, Andrea Loewenstein, “Snowbound”, inGay Community News, volume10, number28, page10:
      "Friday!" she called out, bursting open the doors and quicklyencircling her friend in the warmth of her arms.
    • 1989,Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated byH. T. Willetts,August 1914,Farrar, Straus and Giroux,→ISBN, page70:
      […]two Russian armies would advance into East Prussia, one westward from the Niemen, the other northward from the Narew, with the object ofencircling and immobilizing all enemy forces there.
    • 2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, inAmerica‎[1], volume182, number21:
      Down through the centuries, as the Holy Spirit graces person after person in land after land, they form together a grand company of "friends of God and prophets" (Wis. 7:27); a community of holy people endeavoring to live their lives praising God, loving each other and struggling for justice and peace. This is a company that not onlyencircles the globe in space but stretches backward and forward in time.
  2. (transitive) To move or go around completely.
    • 1996, Macy Nulman,The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page385:
      It is also customary in the Orient and among Sephardim for the mourners toencircle the coffin of an erudite person seven times and reciteYoshayv besayter while making each circuit.

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surround
to move or go around completely

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