Encircle

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  • transitive verb. To form a circle around; surround.
  • transitive verb. To move or go around completely; make a circuit of.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To form a circle round; inclose or surround circularly; embrace as in a ring or circle; gird: as, luminous rings encircle Saturn.
  • To encompass; surround; environ: as, the army encircled the city.
  • To move about in a circular direction; make the circuit of.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To surround, form a circle around.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. form a circle around
  • verb. bind with something round or circular