Synonyms of compassing

compassing

verb

present participle of compass

1

as in accomplishing

to carry through (as a process) to completion

attempting more than his modest abilities could compass

Synonyms & Similar Words

• accomplishing
• fulfilling
• achieving
• executing
• performing
• doing
• implementing
• making
• prosecuting
• committing
• perpetrating
• carrying out
• negotiating
• completing
• carrying off
• realizing
• effecting
• pulling off
• attaining
• effectuating
• going through
• finishing
• bringing off
• putting through
• practicing
• actualizing
• bringing about
• acing
• following through (with)
• nailing
• reduplicating
• repeating
• reenacting
• practising
• ending
• winding up
• working (at)
• engaging (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• failing
• slighting
• slurring
• skimping

• failing
• slighting
• slurring
• skimping

2

as in traversing

to travel completely around

the great age of exploration, when ships of sail compassed the earth

Synonyms & Similar Words

• traversing
• circling
• encircling
• orbiting
• crossing
• circumventing
• circumnavigating
• girdling
• circuiting
• rounding
• ringing
• circumambulating
• perambulating

3

as in plotting

to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends

the rebels are compassing the assassination of the king

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plotting
• scheming
• contriving
• planning
• conspiring
• conniving
• devising
• colluding
• machinating
• intriguing
• engineering
• designing
• mapping
• concocting
• manipulating
• maneuvering
• hatching
• shaping
• putting up
• counterplotting
• jockeying
• brewing
• cooking (up)
• framing
• laying out

4

as in surrounding

to form a circle around

a mysterious isle, compassed by treacherous seas

Synonyms & Similar Words

• surrounding
• encircling
• encompassing
• environing
• circling
• embracing
• enclosing
• ringing
• inclosing
• girdling
• wreathing
• girding
• circumscribing
• walling
• besieging
• besetting
• intrenching
• closing in
• swarming
• entrenching
• cordoning (off)
• investing
• fencing (in)
• hemming (in)

5

as in understanding

to have a clear idea of

the concept that the earth is billions of years old is one that the average mind struggles to compass

Synonyms & Similar Words

• understanding
• knowing
• comprehending
• grasping
• deciphering
• recognizing
• perceiving
• sensing
• apprehending
• seeing
• conceiving
• appreciating
• beholding
• realizing
• assimilating
• intuiting
• seizing
• cognizing
• making
• discerning
• getting
• decoding
• savvying
• catching
• digging
• grokking
• fathoming
• registering
• making out
• twigging
• absorbing
• cottoning (to or on to)
• tumbling (to)
• catching on (to)
• picking up on
• penetrating
• digesting
• taking in
• piercing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missing
• misunderstanding
• mistaking
• misconceiving
• misinterpreting
• misreading
• misapprehending
• misconstruing
• misperceiving

• missing
• misunderstanding
• mistaking
• misconceiving
• misinterpreting
• misreading
• misapprehending
• misconstruing
• misperceiving

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