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encircling

encircling adjective: enclosing, skirting. Also the present participle and gerund of encircle.

Adjective

encircling (not comparable)

  1. enclosing, skirting
    • She felt safe in her mother's encircling arms.

Noun

encircling (plural encirclings)

  1. encirclement
    • If, however, a series of motifs conjoin in their encirclings of a theme - within and beyond the "subtext" - they enliven the interplay among themselves and with the theme to which they are attracted over the turbulent abyss of time and space.1995, Frank Trommler, Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich

Also used as

encircling is also the present participle and gerund of encircle.

Forms of encircling

pluralencirclings

Questions about encircling

What does encircling mean?
Encircling means enclosing, skirting.
What part of speech is encircling?
Encircling can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near encircling in the dictionary

  1. encirclers
  2. encircles
  3. encirclet
  4. encircleth
  5. encirclets
  6. encircling
  7. encirclingly
  8. encirclings
  9. encise
  10. Enciso
  11. Encisos

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