compassed

accomplished, achieved, brought off, carried off, carried out, committed, did, executed, followed through (with), fulfilled, made, negotiated, performed, perpetrated, prosecuted, pulled off, put through

circled, circuited, circumnavigated, circumvented, encircled, girdled, orbited, ringed, rounded

colluded, connived, conspired, contrived, intrigued, machinated, plotted, put up, schemed

circled, embraced, encircled, enclosed (also inclosed), encompassed, environed, girded (or girt), girdled, ringed, surrounded, wreathed

appreciated, apprehended, assimilated, beheld, caught, caught on (to), cognized, comprehended, conceived, cottoned (to or on to), deciphered, decoded, discerned, dug, got, grasped, grokked, intuited, knew, made, made out, perceived, recognized, registered, savvied, saw, seized, sensed, tumbled (to), twigged, understood