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encircled

encircled is the simple past and past participle of encircle.

Meaning of encircle

Verb

encircle (third-person singular simple present encircles, present participle encircling, simple past and past participle encircled)

  1. (transitive) To surround, form a circle around.
    • "Friday!" she called out, bursting open the doors and quickly encircling her friend in the warmth of her arms.1983 February 5, Andrea Loewenstein, “Snowbound”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28, page 10
  2. (transitive) To move or go around completely.
    • It is also customary in the Orient and among Sephardim for the mourners to encircle the coffin of an erudite person seven times and recite Yoshayv besayter while making each circuit.1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 385

Words formed from encircled

Questions about encircled

What is encircled the simple past and past participle of?
Encircled is the simple past and past participle of encircle.

Words near encircled in the dictionary

  1. encipherment
  2. encipherments
  3. enciphers
  4. enciprazine
  5. encircle
  6. encircled
  7. encirclement
  8. encirclements
  9. encircler
  10. encirclers
  11. encircles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encircled (page history and authors); encircle (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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