encompass
to include comprehensively: a work that encompasses the entire range of the world's religious beliefs.
Obsolete. to outwit.
Origin of encompass
1Other words from encompass
- en·com·pass·ment, noun
- un·en·com·passed, adjective
Words Nearby encompass
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How to use encompass in a sentence
California forests and shrublands encompass a patchwork of private, state, and federal management.
California and the Forest Service have a plan to prevent future catastrophic fires | Ula Chrobak | August 27, 2020 | Popular-ScienceCEO Tim Cook has been doubling down on Apple’s so-called services business, which encompasses the App Store, to offset slowing growth in iPhone sales.
Why Apple let WordPress walk but continues to fight Fortnite’s Epic Games | rhhackettfortune | August 25, 2020 | FortuneClark, a veteran Amazon executive, will run the Worldwide Consumer unit, a group that encompasses most of what shoppers know of Amazon, including the retail website and the growing logistics empire that stocks and delivers items.
Amazon has tapped Dave Clark as chief of its retail business | Rachel Schallom | August 21, 2020 | FortuneIf there is any downside to the game, it’s that Endangered can never hope to encompass the truly vast scope of the extinction problem.
The board game Endangered shows just how hard conservation can be | Sarah Zielinski | August 21, 2020 | Science NewsYou have always wondered if his ill humor is reserved for you or is all encompassing.
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Cormac McCarthy once said that a novel can “encompass all the various disciplines and interests of humanity.”
The book is, unsurprisingly, a satire—no other genre could encompass two such divergent topics.
3 Must Reads: ‘Kayak Morning,’ ‘Mr. g,’ and ‘Alex Gilvarry’ | Hillary Kelly, Mythili Rao, Jacob Silverman | February 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTCultural attitudes toward marriage have unquestionably shifted during the past half century, but those changes encompass everyone.
Charles Murray’s ‘Coming Apart’ and the Culture Myth | Ralph Richard Banks | February 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe original meaning, of course, did not encompass black people.
It is too much loaded with detail to be distinct; and the canvas is too large for the eye to encompass.
The Pocket R.L.S. | Robert Louis StevensonThe Arii are situated by the side of the Drangæ both on the north and west, and nearly encompass them.
Ranges of grey and barren hills encompass the valley; the ground is for the most part covered with sand and gravel.
Your ladyship, so I understand, is at this moment under the impression that I desire to encompass—shall I say?
The Elusive Pimpernel | Baroness Emmuska OrczyYou may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which encompass me.
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | A. Conan Doyle
British Dictionary definitions for encompass
/ (ɪnˈkʌmpəs) /
to enclose within a circle; surround
to bring about; cause to happen; contrive: he encompassed the enemy's ruin
to include entirely or comprehensively: this book encompasses the whole range of knowledge
Derived forms of encompass
- encompassment, noun
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