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enframed

verb

past tense of enframe
as in surrounded

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enframed
  1. surrounded
  2. encircled
  3. enfolded
  4. encompassed
  5. ringed
  6. restricted
  7. framed
  8. circumscribed
Verb
  • Lenin and Trotsky believed that their Bolshevik Revolution would succeed only when the Soviet Union was surrounded by other Communist states.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Leary said that once the riders were surrounded on the bridge, police took them into custody without incident.
    — Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of surrounded
Verb
  • 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
Definition of encircled
Verb
  • Where the Eleousa pressed mother and child cheek to cheek and Cassatt enfolded mothers around their infants, de Monteflores goes further, disappearing the mother’s face entirely behind her child’s.
    — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
  • But the idea of a single galaxy’s stars being enfolded into the Milky Way is intriguing and worthy of further study, Battersby said.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 May 2026
Definition of enfolded
Verb
  • The warning encompassed the Getty Center as well as Mount Saint Mary’s University.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The publication grew under her leadership, and encompassed a more diverse range of voices, featuring the likes of Maya Angelou, Angela Davis, and Alice Walker.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of encompassed
Verb
  • The site sits in South Memphis, where the surrounding neighborhoods are predominantly Black and ringed by industry that long predates xAI.
    — Austyn Gaffney, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026
  • At its heart is the main pool ringed by lounge chairs and a pair of whirlpools.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of ringed
Verb
  • The Cavs traded for Denver Nuggets restricted free agent Peyton Watson.
    — Tony Jones, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Twelve days on, very little is known about the victims in Tibet as Chinese authorities have restricted reporting on the floods.
    — Jennifer Pak, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of restricted
Verb
  • Tracey Campbell, the Alliance’s chair and executive vice president of sustainability and corporate affairs at plastics producer LyondellBasell, framed the strategy as an alternative to restricting the material itself.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
  • White flamingos and red-footed falcons floated above the lagoon, framed by a long strip of dune and beach.
    — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of framed
Verb
  • In the course of the film, Hargitay reevaluates her mom, forming a fuller picture of how Mansfield’s career choices were circumscribed by the egregious sexism of the 1950s and ‘60s.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Representatives from hostile states like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are circumscribed in their movements, typically limited to a small radius around their official posts—an embassy, a consulate, a permanent mission to the UN.
    — Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
Definition of circumscribed
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