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Definition of encompassed : of Encompass

Synonyms:

corralled, confined, enclosed, embraced, fenced, enveloped, surrounded, held, contained, covered, impounded, trapped, caged, encircled, imprisoned

girded, circled, wreathed

entangled, related, composed, included, incorporated, embodied, wedded, enmeshed, married, integrated, involved, comprised

Usage examples:

• His temple at Rome has two gates, which they call the gates of war, because they stand open in the time of war, and shut in the times of peace; of which latter there was very seldom an example, for, as the Roman empire was enlarged and extended, it was so encompassed with barbarous nations and enemies to be resisted, that it was seldom or never at peace. - "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans", Clough, Arthur Hugh.
• They reported to me that the village was encompassed with barbed wire, and that a number of blockhouses had been built round it, and also that various large houses of the village had been barricaded and were strongly occupied. - "My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War", Ben Viljoen.
• We ourselves have known what it is to prosecute in solitude, with but few books, and encompassed by many difficulties, the search after knowledge; and we have seen year after year pass by, and the obstacles in our way remaining apparently as great as at first. - "Leading Articles on Various Subjects", Hugh Miller.