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List of antonyms from "encirclement" to antonyms from "encountered"


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Definition of the day : « encircles »

  • verb circumscribe
Example sentences :
  • The frame of wood which encircles the upper part of the paddle-wheel.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • From this, a wreath of "or" (gold) encircles the shield, reaching nearly the crest.
  • Extract from : « Caudebec in America » by William Louis Cuddeback
  • When heaven would save a man, it encircles him with compassion.
  • Extract from : « Concord Days » by A. Bronson Alcott
  • A tower broken by large openings, as in the Tower of Pisa, encircles it.
  • Extract from : « Rodin: The Man and his Art » by Judith Cladel
  • For the relation a crown has to him whom it encircles, the same the sea has to an island.
  • Extract from : « Essays and Miscellanies » by Plutarch
  • A broad and well-paved esplanade, 2½ m. long, encircles the shore.
  • Extract from : « Somerset » by G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade
  • This round is that part of the crown that encircles the head.
  • Extract from : « Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies » by Samuel Johnson
  • The purifying flame shoots upward, and is the glory that encircles their brows when they meet above.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • The weapon is called the bolus, and flying through the air it encircles the legs of the guana, bringing it to the earth.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of My Dead Life » by George Moore
  • The love which unites two hearts is like the ocean of Homer which encircles both halves of the earth.
  • Extract from : « Homo Sum, Complete » by Georg Ebers