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Verb
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To envelop with something, as with a belt or a garment
ingirt
engird
engirt
enveloping
Verb
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Present participle for to surround or make a ring around
enclosing
surrounding
encompassing
circling
girdling
compassing
bounding
girding
circumscribing
confining
enveloping
bordering
environing
embracing
inclosing
skirting
orbiting
edging
circuiting
engirding
enfolding
fringing
wreathing
covering
circumventing
rounding
circumnavigating
fencing
begirding
banding
cincturing
enringing
hemming in
fencing in
walling in
shutting in
closing in
locking in
cutting off
forming a barrier round
forming a ring around
girding in
ringing in
more ❯
“When the savages began to encircle the livestock, the herdsmen attempted to drive the cattle into the stockade.”
Verb
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Present participle for to follow a course that forms a loop or loops
looping
twisting
curving
turning
arching
coiling
winding
bending
curling
circling
bowing
arcing
arcking
crooking
spiralingUS
spirallingUK
encompassing
ringing
compassing
girding
snaking
surrounding
meandering
rolling
corkscrewing
incurvating
braiding
curving round
winding round
curving around
tiing together
winding around
forming a ring round
more ❯
Verb
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Present participle for to section off a physical space or area
cordoning off
isolating
closing
segregating
enclosing
surrounding
barricading
quarantining
shutting
sealing
blockading
barring
roping
closing off
fencing off
sealing off
taping off
blocking off
roping off
partitioning off
screening off
curtaining off
shutting off
separating off
Verb
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Present participle for to cover or enclose in cloth or soft material
enfolding
enveloping
swathing
wrapping
shrouding
enclosing
enwrapping
encompassing
enshrouding
enswathing
veiling
covering
cocooning
embracing
inclosing
mantling
embosoming
embowering
cloaking
surrounding
sheathing
bosoming
swaddling
bowering
circumfusing
investing
encasing
involving
lapping
draping
concealing
masking
muffling
engulfing
palling
immersing
girdling
obnubilating
paving
circling
wrapping up
more ❯
Verb
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Present participle for to hug, hold or embrace tightly
squeezing
embracing
hugging
cuddling
clasping
enfolding
clutching
crushing
enclasping
enveloping
folding
pressing
wrapping
holding
straining
throttling
clinging to
holding close
holding tight
grasping
locking
clinging
embosoming
cradling
clenching
folding in arms
taking in arms
grappling
enclosing
Verb
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Present participle for to crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility
mobbing
besieging
surrounding
harassing
overrunning
jostling
worrying
assailing
attacking
hassling
hustling
pestering
converging on
crowding round
descending on
falling on
setting upon
swarming around
crowding around
Adjective
▲
Having or being capable of having rotation
revolving
spinning
turning
whirling
circling
rotating
gyrating
swirling
circulating
pirouetting
reeling
rolling
twirling
gyratory
rotational
rotatory
vorticular
rotary
vertiginous
whirligig
gyral
spiral rotating
spiralingUS
spirallingUK
moving
fluid
in motion
giddy
dizzy
lightheaded
woozy
swimmy
aswoon
light-headed
Adjective
▲
Moving in a circular path around a central object
orbiting
circling
revolving
clockwise
counterclockwise
going around
Adjective
▲
All around or nearby a particular place or thing
surrounding
peripheral
neighboringUS
neighbouringUK
abutting
adjacent
adjoining
bordering
nearby
circumambient
encompassing
flanking
immediate
outlying
proximate
border
circumjacent
close
contiguous
enclosing
fringe
fringing
juxtaposed
near
skirting
verging
circumferential
circumforaneous
conterminous
joining
neighborhoodUS
neighbourhoodUK
nigh
touching
next-door
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Of broad scope or content
comprehensive
complete
exhaustive
full
inclusive
thorough
all-inclusive
extensive
all-embracing
broad
encyclopaedicUK
encyclopedicUS
sweeping
universal
wide
blanket
catholic
in-depth
overarching
umbrella
all-out
compendious
far-reaching
total
detailed
full-scale
wholesale
eclectic
out-and-out
wide-ranging
widespread
absolute
all-in
broad-gauge
broad-gauged
broad-ranging
clean
coast-to-coast
countrywide
cover-all
cross-disciplinary
cyclopedic
embracive
global
interdisciplinary
nationwide
omnibus
panoramic
radical
thoroughgoing
wall-to-wall
across the board
entire
expansive
general
grand
multidisciplinary
across-the-board
all-encompassing
ample
compleat
comprising
containing
discursive
infinite
intact
integral
overall
perfect
plenary
synoptic
whole
in depth
the works
of great scope
the big picture
the whole shebang
lock stock and barrel
full-spectrum
well rounded
more ❯
Preposition
▲
On all sides of
surrounding
around
round
about
circling
enclosing
encompassing
framing
covering
environing
all around
on all sides of
on every side of
on the periphery of
over
throughout
across
all over
upon
straddling
on
everywhere
from one end to the other of
to cover
in such a way as to cover
on all sides
through
near
orbiting
in the neighbourhood of
more ❯
Adverb
▲
In the vicinity of
round
about
around
enclosing
near
orbiting
in the area of
in the neighbourhood of
in the vicinity of
in the neighborhood of
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