encircled

verb

past tense of encircle
1
as in circled
to travel completely around communication satellites encircling the earth

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2
as in surrounded
to form a circle around immediately after announcing their engagement, the couple was encircled by their applauding friends

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Recent Examples of encircled Lend your home a bohemian touch with Safavieh’s rug encircled with jute medallions. — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2026 Red roses and candles also encircled the couple on the sand. — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026 The venue is encircled by a towering curtain of oaks, poplars, and pines, and each note seemed to hang in the air for the rapt audience. — Hillary Richard, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026 Today, the Green is encircled by Whitfield, Broad, Park and Boston streets. — Sarah Kyrcz, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026 Adjacent to it, an informal dining space was conceived as a modern take on a veranda, with a circular table encircled by walls of glass on three sides. — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 11 June 2026 The island had gone from farm and pasture in the nineteenth century to nature preserves and residential property in the twentieth, its silvery shingled homes encircled by forests and deer. — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 That probe dates to early 2025 and is just one of several investigations that have encircled Newsom, his office and his family, according to two sources cited by MS NOW. — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 15 June 2026 Blackened with volcanic rock and encircled by towering waves, the tumultuous scenery makes a vivid psychic landscape for So Help Me God, a rambling spell of ’70s-era soul and exuberant orchestral folk-pop that sweeps through the fog of heartbreak and the clarity of self-discovery. — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for encircled
  1. circled
  2. surrounded
  3. traversed
  4. orbited
Verb
  • Holloway has spent the decade since assembling one of the great featherweight résumés in company history, which is why a fight nobody circled in 2013 now headlines the biggest week on the UFC calendar.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • As astronauts circled the Earth, aquanauts moved into seafloor labs.
    — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
Definition of circled
Verb
  • The area last week was surrounded by surveillance cameras and patrolled by National Guardsmen as lifelong resident John Cates strolled the area.
    — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Piles of meat, cheese, lettuce and tomatoes surrounded the early risers.
    — CBS News Philadelphia Staff, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Definition of surrounded
Verb
  • According to the hiking blog, The Hiking HI, the rock bridge can only be traversed at low tide, but can be treacherous either way.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • On a recent visit, the water traversed a smoky 10-foot canyon of charred foam and twisted wall panels on its way to the drain.
    — Mack Baysinger Follow, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026
Definition of traversed
Verb
  • The satellite has orbited Earth about once every hour and a half for more than two decades, and over time, friction with particles in the upper atmosphere has caused its orbit to decay.
    — Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 29 June 2026
  • As presently blueprinted by NASA, the International Space Station will be de-orbited via a series of actions.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 23 June 2026
Definition of orbited

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