Thesaurus results for RINGED

ringed

verb

Definition of ringed

past tense of ring

as in surrounded

to form a circle around tall cypress trees ringing the park

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as in circled

to travel completely around the line of season ticket buyers ringed the block

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Recent Examples of ringed If your glasses always come out of the dishwasher looking cloudy or your faucets are ringed with white residue, hard water could be the reason. — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026 Standard galactic black holes are ringed by a thick doughnut of gas and dust, which can block most X-rays. — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026 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 Where to Stay The anchor property that started it all, ringed with trees and replete with villas. — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026 Rent from Kayak Branson to paddle around Lake Taneycomo or Table Rock Lake, both ringed with golden hickory and oak trees. — Taryn Shorr-McKee, Midwest Living, 26 Aug. 2026 The fire began Saturday and grew to more than 23 square miles on Sunday across foothills ringed by neighborhoods near the California state line. — Haven Daly, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026 The fire began Saturday and grew to more than 23 square miles (60 square kilometers) on Sunday across foothills ringed by neighborhoods northwest of downtown Reno near the California state line. — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ringed

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

The $496 million GRAIL probes orbited the moon in an extremely low orbit, coming within 30 miles (50 km) of the lunar surface at their closest approach.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2026
In fact, just one spacecraft, NASA’s MESSENGER, has ever orbited the planet.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of orbited

Verb

To find their bodies, that afternoon Comella and other firemen traversed the steep, smoldering steel mountain using a series of ladders, a process not unlike the way trekkers negotiate the treacherous Khumbu ice fall at the base of Mount Everest.

— Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
As the airplane air-conditioning worked overtime in the desert heat, the grooms traversed the tarmac numerous times to shuttle water and supplies to the horses.

— Danielle Rossingh, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026