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encompass - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To form a circle or ring around; encircle.
- transitive verb To enclose; envelop.
- transitive verb To have as part of something larger; include: synonym: include.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form a circle about; encircle.
- To environ; inclose; surround; shut in: as, the besieging army encompassed Jerusalem.
- To go or sail round: as, Drake encompassed the globe.
- To get into one's toils; get round; gain power over.
- To compass or bring about; accomplish.
- Synonyms To gird, invest, hem in, shut up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To form a
circle around; toencircle . - verb transitive To
include within itsscope ; tocircumscribe or go round so as tosurround ; toenclose ; tocontain . - verb transitive To
include completely; todescribe fully orcomprehensively . - verb transitive To go around, especially, to
circumnavigate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
en- + compass
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Examples
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The "three weeks" of the title encompass both Max's expedition, in December 2000, and the experiences of another American, hunting lions in west-central Africa, in December 1899.
NYT > Home Page By BRUCE BARCOTT 2012
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Note that throughout this entry ˜science™ and cognate terms encompass only the natural sciences.
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics Paseau, Alexander 2008
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I would argue that although these labels encompass a wider array of political thought than party classifications, they are dangerous to critical thought.
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The title of this work is The Vain Man, and Daumier is at pains to show off this self-vaunting individual as nothing more nor less than what the limits of that title encompass.
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Their service calls encompass an area from Rockford to Clinton, Iowa and Monroe,
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Their titles encompass: Asian American Studies, Asia Studies, Martial Arts, Traditional Chinese
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"mind" or the German word "Geist," the Sanskrit and Tibetan Buddhist terms encompass a much larger scope of meaning than that of either the English or German renderings of them.
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"mind" or the German word "Geist," the Sanskrit and Tibetan Buddhist terms encompass a much larger scope of meaning than that of either the English or German renderings of them.
The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� 4 The Initial Level of Mahamudra Meditation 1997
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It -- you know, I've said it before, but the camera lens isn't -- isn't big enough to kind of encompass all the suffering and all the -- all the images that we're seeing.
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_Briton_, who esteems Merit in Rags, and contemns the Vicious, tho 'encompass'd with a Crowd of Servants, and distinguish'd by the glaring
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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synonyms (210)
Words with the same meaning
- accouple
- accumulate
- add
- admit
- agglutinate
- amalgamate
- amass
- articulate
- assemble
- assimilate
- associate
- band
- beleaguer
- beset
- besiege
- blend
- blockade
- bond
- bound
- box in
- bracket
- bridge
- bridge over
- cage
- carry
- cement
- chain
- chamber
- circle
- circuit
- circuiteer
- circulate
- circumambulate
- circummigrate
- circumnavigate
- circumvent
- clap together
- close
- close in
- close the circle
- coalesce
- collect
- combine
- come full circle
- come together
- compass
- compass about
- complete
- compound
- comprehend
- comprise
- concatenate
- conglobulate
- conjoin
- conjugate
- connect
- consolidate
- contain
- coop
- coop in
- coop up
- copulate
- cordon
- cordon off
- corral
- count in
- couple
- cover
- cycle
- delimit
- describe a circle
- embay
- embody
- embosom
- embrace
- encircle
- enclasp
- enclose
- enfold
- enshrine
- envelop
- environ
- envisage
- enwrap
- extend
- fence in
- fill
- fill in
- fill out
- flank
- flux
- fuse
- gather
- gird
- girdle
- girdle the globe
- glue
- go
- go about
- go around
- go out
- go round
- go the round
- gyre
- harass
- harry
- have
- hedge in
- hem
- hem in
- hold
- house in
- impound
- imprison
- incarcerate
- inclose
- include
- incorporate
- integrate
- interblend
- interfuse
- invest
- involve
- jail
- join
- kennel
- knot
- lap
- lay siege to
- lay together
- league
- leaguer
- lie
- link
- lump together
- make a circuit
- make one
- marry
- marshal
- mass
- meld
- melt into one
- merge
- mew
- mew up
- mix
- mobilize
- number among
- occupy
- orbit
- pair
- pen
- pen in
- piece together
- put together
- quarantine
- rail in
- range
- reach
- reach out
- receive
- reckon among
- reckon in
- reckon with
- reembody
- revolve
- ring
- roll into one
- round
- run
- shade into
- shrine
- shut in
- shut up
- skirt
- soften up
- solder
- solidify
- span
- spiral
- splice
- spread
- stable
- stick together
- straddle
- stretch
- stretch out
- subsume
- surround
- sweep
- syncretize
- syndicate
- synthesize
- take in
- take into account
- take into consideration
- take up
- tape
- thrust out
- tie
- unify
- unite
- wall in
- weld
- wheel
- wrap
- yard
- yard up
- yoke
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