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accompassing

accompassing is the present participle and gerund of accompass.

Meaning of accompass

Verb

accompass (third-person singular simple present accompasses, present participle accompassing, simple past and past participle accompassed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To achieve; effect; bring about.
    • The remotion of two such impediments is not commonly accompass'd by one head-piece.1693, John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offered to the great Deservings of John Williams, D.D

Questions about accompassing

What is accompassing the present participle and gerund of?
Accompassing is the present participle and gerund of accompass.

Words near accompassing in the dictionary

  1. accompanyist
  2. accompanyists
  3. accompass
  4. accompassed
  5. accompasses
  6. accompassing
  7. accompletive
  8. accomplice
  9. accomplices
  10. accompliceship
  11. accomplicity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accompassing (page history and authors); accompass (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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