Word Meanings - ENCIRCLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city. Her brows encircled with his serpent rod. Parnell. Syn. -- To encompass; surround; environ; inclose.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENCIRCLE)

• Bound
• Hem
• surround
• environ
• encircle
• besiege
• beleaguer
• embarrass
• Enclose
• Shut
• include
• circumscribe
• envelop
• wrap
• afforest
• Environ
• Surround
• hem
• in-close
• enfold
• Gird
• belt
• enclose
• engirdle
• encompass
• girdle
• begird
• Skirt
• border
• trim
• confine
• bound

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENCIRCLE)

• Hobble
• limp
• crawl
• creep
• shamble

Related words: (words related to ENCIRCLE)

• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• BESIEGER
  One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• BELEAGUERER
  One who beleaguers.
• SKIRTING
  A skirting board. 2. Skirts, taken collectivelly; material for skirts. Skirting board, the board running around a room on the wall next the floor; baseboard.
• CREEPY
  Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.
• ENGIRDLE
  To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
• CREEPLE
  1. A creeping creature; a reptile. There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton . 2. One who is lame; a cripple. Thou knowest how lame a creeple
• ENCOMPASSMENT
  The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention. By this encompassment and drift of question. Shak.
• AFFOREST
  To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.
• CIRCUMSCRIBE
  To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5. Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass. (more info) 1. to write or engare around. Thereon is
• BOUNDING
  Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.
• ENVIRONS
  The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.
• BESIEGEMENT
  The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged. Golding.
• BELEAGUER
  To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow. Syn. -- To block up; environ; invest; encompass. (more info) Dan. beleire); pref. be- = E. be- + leger bed, camp, army,
• HOBBLEBUSH
  A low bush having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• UNBOUNDED
  Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
• SEA GIRDLES
  A kind of kelp with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
• SURREBOUND
  To give back echoes; to reëcho. Chapman.
• SCRAWLER
  One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.
• COAFFOREST
  To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.
• REBOUND
  1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.