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encircled

Pronunciation:  ens'urkuld

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  adorned or crowned with a circlet; sometimes used as combining forms; "a brow encircled with laurel"; "wreathed in an extraordinary luminescence"; "ringed round with daisies"; "smoke-wreathed"
  2. [adj]  enclosed within a circle; "the encircled camp was complete cut off"
  3. [adj]  confined on all sides; "a camp surrounded by enemies"; "the encircled pioneers"
 
 Synonyms: adorned, decorated, enclosed, ringed, surrounded, wreathed
 

 

 

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 Related Terms: begirt, belted, cinctured, circled, circumscribed, circumscript, defined, definite, delimited, demarcated, determinate, determined, encinctured, fixed, girdled, girt, hedged about, ringed, set, specific, stated, surrounded, zoned
 

 

 

 

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