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Definitions: Encircled |
EncircledAdjective1. Confined on all sides; "a camp surrounded by enemies"; "the encircled pioneers". 2. Enclosed within a circle; "the encircled camp was complete cut off". 3. Adorned or crowned with a circlet; sometimes used as combining forms; "a brow encircled with laurel"; "wreathed in an extraordinary luminescence"; "ringed round with daisies"; "smoke-wreathed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "encircled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: EncircledSynonyms: ringed (adj), surrounded (adj), wreathed (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Encircled |
| English words defined with "encircled": Browbound ♦ Dead-eye ♦ Ingirt ♦ ringed ♦ surrounded ♦ unreasonable ♦ White-eye, wreathed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "encircled": Closed Low ♦ encircling gillnet ♦ Fo-hi ♦ Khorassan ♦ Radiation Belt ♦ SKIFF OPERATOR ♦ track-and-field. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "encircled": Encircle. (references) |
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Screenplays | It binds all who are encircled and compels them to tell the truth! (Wonder Woman; writing credit: Sandra Paretti) | |
Lyrics | Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire ("Fortress Around Yur Heart"; performing artist: Sting) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Syrian poster showing a baby's head encircled by stylized wheat].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Christmas subjects. Christmas tree encircled by toy train, in basement.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | For president John Bell For vice president Edward Everett. An American flag with portrait of John Bell encircled by 33 stars in a blue field.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | He wore a profusion of ribbons on his garment, and gold lace on his hat, which was also encircled by a gold chain, and surmounted with a feather. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At the end of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as if to recommence his walk towards this seat, which was encircled by a halo. |
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Civil Liberties | Belarus | The security forces encircled the peaceful protest and beat demonstrators at random. (references) |
Economic History | Liberia | On September 18, 1998, security forces in Monrovia encircled and killed perhaps hundreds of ethnic Krahns who were affiliated with a faction that had opposed Taylor during the civil war. (references) |
Minorities | Georgia | In December 2000, Basilists encircled a 5,000 square meter plot of land where a local Pentecostal congregation planned to build a multi-purpose building. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Encircled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 52.38% of the time. "Encircled" is used about 105 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 52.38% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 40.95% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.67% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 105 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "encircled": encircled area ♦ encircled forces ♦ encircled ringed wreathed ♦ surrounded encircled. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "encircled": glass-encircled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "encircled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 包围 (Circumscribe, Circumscribed, Circumscribing, Compassed, Compassing, Encircle, encirclement, Encircling, Envelop, Enveloped, Enveloping, Environ, Environed, Environing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | olla saarroksissa (be blockaded, be encircled, be surrounded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ceinte, ceint, ceignis, ceignirent, ceignîmes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | eingekreist. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מוקף (surrounded), מוסב (meant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bekerített erõk (encircled forces). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | encircleday окружать окруженный (skirted, surrounded). (various references) omge (begird, circle, compass, embed, embrace, encase, encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, girdle, imbed, incase, inclose, surround, wreathe). (various references) çevrili (sided, skirted, surrounded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | circumseptae, circumseptam, circumseptum. (various references) |
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"Encircled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: encyclo, uncircled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "encircled" (pronounced enser"kuld) |
| 6 | -s er" k u l d | circled. |
| 4 | -k u l d | bespectacled, bicycled, buckled, chronicled, chuckled, crackled, cycled, freckled, heckled, knuckled, pickled, rankled, recycled, shackled, sparkled, speckled, sprinkled, tackled, tickled, tinkled, trickled, unshackled, wrinkled. |
| 3 | -u l d | addled, ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, befuddled, belittled, bevelled, boggled, bottled, bridled, bristled, bubbled, bundled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, cobbled, coddled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cuddled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, dwindled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, enfeebled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, handled, hassled, Herald, hobbled, huddled, humbled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, kindled, labeled, labelled, ladled, leveled, levelled, libeled, mangled, manhandled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mishandled, mislabeled, modeled, mottled, muddled, muffled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rattled, raveled, reassembled, redoubled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resembled, resettled, reshuffled, reveled, riddled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumbled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scaffold, scrambled, scribbled, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, spiraled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, subtitled, swindled, tabled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, tripled, troubled, trundled, tumbled, tussled, unbridled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unsettled, untrammeled, untroubled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, widdled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-i-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: decliner, encircle, licenced, licencer, reclined. | |
-2 letters: circled, decline, eccrine, licence, recline, redline, relined. | |
-3 letters: ceiled, ceiler, cinder, circle, cleric, clerid, crenel, decern, decile, deicer, denier, edenic, lender, lieder, lierne, nereid, reined, relend, relied, reline. | |
-4 letters: ceder, cerci, cered, ceric, cider, cline, creed, creel, cried, deice, dicer, diene, diner, edile, eider, elder, elide, ender, idler, lined, liner, nicer, niece, recce, relic, riced, riled. | |
-5 letters: cede, cedi, ceil, cere, cine, cire, deer, deil, dele, deli, dene, deni, dere, dice, diel, dine, dire, dirl, dree, eide, erne, iced, idle, ired, leer, lend, lice, lied, lien, lier, line, lire, need, nerd, nice, nide, rede, reed, reel, rein, rend, rice, ride, riel, rile, rind. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-e-i-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: reconciled. | |
+3 letters: unreconciled. | |
+4 letters: clairaudience. | |
+5 letters: clairaudiences, counterclaimed, electrodynamic, radiolucencies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 63 69 72 63 6C 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. -.-. .. .-. -.-. .-.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100011 01101001 01110010 01100011 01101100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n c i r c l e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0063 0069 0072 0063 006C 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398069758469787170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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