encircled

verb

past tense of encircle
1
as in circled
to travel completely around communication satellites encircling the earth

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2
as in surrounded
to form a circle around immediately after announcing their engagement, the couple was encircled by their applauding friends

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Recent Examples of encircled Instead of gold watches, silver handcuffs encircled their wrists. — Jonny Hallam, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026 The pair left their vehicle to find assistance, traversing salt flats toward Badwater Road, a two-lane highway encircled by mountains. — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2026 In 1951, Western Auto bought the building and invested more $300,000 in renovations and additions, including a new 30-ton, 70-by-73-foot sign displaying its name in massive red letters encircled by an arrow. — Rashad Alexander august 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2026 The pendant, which is encircled by diamonds, also includes a heart between the initials. — Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 3 Aug. 2026 Lining the outer cell membrane, at the base of the cilia, were simple structures, each encircled by a single membrane. — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2026 The area along the Cumberland River where more than 100 people once lived is now encircled by fences and no-trespassing signs. — Marissa J. Lang, NPR, 21 July 2026 The youngest Lestat trips over reciting a passage about being encircled by God’s love. — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 On this day, four guests — clad in masks, snorkels, flippers, and dressed in all black to reduce the risk of being confused for a fish by the sharks — clung onto a safety line and watched as the silky sharks encircled them. — Kate Waxman, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for encircled
  1. circled
  2. surrounded
  3. traversed
  4. orbited
Verb
  • In layman's terms, you are being paid to take the unlock that everyone already circled.
    — Jeff Kilburg, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The jumpship circled the fire while the spotter—a smokejumper who oversees the mission from the air—leaned out the door to assess it.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of circled
Verb
  • The symbolic funeral pyres were surrounded by offerings to Hindu deities as relatives gathered to perform the final rites.
    — Shristi Kafle, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The novel’s little Scottish village, surrounded by forest, feels claustrophobic, isolated, steeped in dread.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of surrounded
Verb
  • Sting is set to narrate a new documentary portrait of Nino Rota, the Italian composer whose music traversed the worlds of cinema and the concert hall, from Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and 8½ to Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The film itself was an odyssey of a shoot, as the cast traversed multiple countries and territories—Scotland, Italy, the Western Sahara, Greece—in all types of weather.
    — Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of traversed
Verb
  • Though the supermassive black hole of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), isn't currently involved in a rpTDE, it is orbited by many rapid stars.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Instead, the museum included Pluto as one of the 300 icy bodies that orbited beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of orbited

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“Encircled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encircled. Accessed 6 Sep. 2026.

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