Concept cluster: Tools > Encircling or surrounding
adj
(poetic) encircled
v
(transitive, archaic) To encircle, surround, as with a gird; enclose; encompass.
v
To encircle or surround, as with a girdle.
v
(transitive) To girdle or encircle.
adj
(obsolete) Encircled; enveloped; surrounded.
v
(transitive, intransitive, dated) To encircle (something) with a ring or some other circular object (such as a shackle).
v
(transitive) To border; lie on the outskirts of.
adj
(archaic, poetic) wrapped
v
(transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
v
(transitive) To share a border with.
n
(historical, uncommon, see usage note) battle of encirclement
adj
(obsolete) surrounded
v
To encircle, or surround.
v
(transitive) To surround.
adj
girdled about, encompassed
v
(transitive) To surround with, or as if with, a wall.
v
To draw a line around; to encircle.
v
(obsolete) To cover round, as with a garment; to invest.
v
(obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
v
To circumscribe; to delimit.
v
(of a snake) To coil around (prey) in order to asphyxiate it.
v
(transitive) To bend or curve.
v
(transitive) To furnish or adorn with a border.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To braid up, as hair.
v
(transitive) To encircle or gird.
v
To move or go around completely.
n
One who encircles.
n
(obsolete) A small circle; a ring.
adv
So as to encircle or surround.
n
A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
v
(transitive) To envelop in clouds.
v
(transitive) To form a circle around; to encircle.
v
(transitive, poetic) To cover or deck with flowers.
adj
(regional, obsolete) Narrow.
v
To encircle with a garland or garlands.
v
(transitive) To gird around; to ingirt.
v
To encircle as if with a girdle.
adj
(rare) Encircled, surrounded.
v
(poetic) To surround; to engirt.
v
(transitive) To surround as if by a globe.
n
The act of enclosing within, or as if within, a globe.
v
(transitive) To surround; to cover; to submerge.
v
(transitive) To surround something with a halo.
v
To surround as if with a hedge.
v
(transitive, figuratively, by extension) To entangle.
v
(transitive) To form ridges on.
v
To encircle.
v
To coat or cover.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To envelop; to enwrap.
v
(archaic) To surround.
v
Obsolete form of interworked.
v
(archaic) To interweave or bind.
v
(transitive) To surround or enclose.
v
(heraldry, chiefly passive, obsolete) To encircle or surround (a heraldic element such as a charge or escutcheon (shield)).
v
(poetic or archaic) To enclose.
v
Alternative form of inwreathe [(transitive, obsolete, poetic) To surround or encompass as with a wreath.]
adj
(archaic) Made; wrought.
v
(transitive, archaic, poetic) To girdle or encircle.
adj
Completely surrounded.
n
A marginal or peripheral part.
v
(India, transitive) To surround for this purpose.
v
(transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
v
(transitive) To encircle with a halo.
v
(transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
v
Obsolete form of emborder. [(transitive) To furnish or adorn with a border.]
v
Obsolete form of embow. [(archaic, transitive, intransitive) To bend like a bow; to curve.]
adj
Surrounded.
v
To encrust.
adj
(obsolete) surrounded, encircled
v
To grow in; grow inwardly.
v
To knot among or between each other; to intertwine so as to form a knot.
adj
(obsolete) Enclosed by walls; immured.
v
(transitive) To twine something together.
v
To intertwine; to wrap together.
v
To weave into a wreath; to intertwine.
v
Archaic spelling of entwine. [To twist or twine around something (or one another).]
adj
Alternative form of involucrate [(botany) Having an involucre; involucred.]
v
(archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
v
(archaic, literary) To weave in or together; to intermix or intertwine by weaving; to interlace.
v
(rare or obsolete) To encircle.
v
(transitive, obsolete, poetic) To surround or encompass as with a wreath.
v
to enclose in a labyrinth, or as though in a labyrinth
v
(transitive) To enwreathe.
v
(transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
adj
(poetic, archaic) Having on the margin; bordered.
v
(poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
v
(transitive) To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.
v
To encircle; to encompass.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To encircle.
adj
(archaic) Wrapped by, or as if by a girdle; closely fitting, wound or wrapped or drawn up tightly.
v
(transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
adj
(by extension) small or cramped
adj
Serving to surround or bookend something else.
adj
Synonym of wraparound
v
(transitive) To wrap around something in a circle.
v
(transitive) To form a wreathlike shape around something.
v
(transitive, archaic, poetic) To girdle or encircle.

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