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Princeton's WordNet

  1. surrounded, encircledadjective

    confined on all sides

    "a camp surrounded by enemies"; "the encircled pioneers"

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  1. encircled

    Encircled generally means being surrounded or enclosed by something, often in a circular shape or form. This could involve physical borders, such as walls or people, or less tangible elements such as circumstances or emotions. It details a sense of being enveloped or encompassed.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Encircled

    of Encircle

Entomology

  1. Encircled

    ringed; margined round about.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of encircled in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of encircled in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of encircled in a Sentence

  1. Vitali Klitschko:

    We can’t do that, because all ways are blocked, all ways are blocked and right now we are encircled — everywhere is Russians and we don’t have a way to evacuate the people. And everyone who had plans to evacuate himself already moved.

  2. John McCain:

    There is recent progress in Iraq. Three-thousand U.S.-trained and equipped Iraqi forces are among those who have encircled Ramadi and are poised for an operation to retake the city from ISIS. Shipments of U.S. weapons are finally arriving to fighters in a timely fashion. But while Defense Ash Carter has not ruled out the use of forward air controllers, Defense Ash Carter said : I talked about that with our commanders … here. They have not recommended us taking that step at this time. Critics in Washington, like Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., have excoriated commanders for not recommending them. Obviously ISIS is winning in Iraq and for you not to be in favor of us having forward air controllers on the ground in some scholastic answer, you know full well as I do -- forward air controllers make the difference.

  3. Andrew Schneider:

    It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

  4. President Volodymyr Zelensky:

    We have to think about our people first and no one should be surrounded, encircled – this is very important, the military sees for themselves that we have to stay strong there despite the fact that Russia ruined the whole city and everything there.

  5. Nathan Thrall:

    Even Netanyahu's main rivals believe that any Palestinian entity that is established in the West Bank should be completely encircled by Israel, having no border with Jordan, the annexation plan shouldn't be dismissed as election bluster. If reelected, Netanyahu will be under tremendous pressure to implement it.

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