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encompass

[ en-kuhm-puhs ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to form a circle about; encircle; surround:

    He built a moat to encompass the castle.

  2. The folds of a great cloak encompassed her person.

  3. to include comprehensively:

    a work that encompasses the entire range of the world's religious beliefs.

  4. Obsolete. to outwit.


encompass

/ ɪnˈkʌmpəs /

verb

  1. to enclose within a circle; surround
  2. to bring about; cause to happen; contrive

    he encompassed the enemy's ruin

  3. to include entirely or comprehensively

    this book encompasses the whole range of knowledge

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • enˈcompassment, noun
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Other Words From

  • en·com·pass·ment noun
  • un·en·com·passed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of encompass1

First recorded in 1545–55; en- 1 + compass
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Example Sentences

California forests and shrublands encompass a patchwork of private, state, and federal management.

CEO 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.

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Clark, 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.

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If there is any downside to the game, it’s that Endangered can never hope to encompass the truly vast scope of the extinction problem.

You 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.

Cultural attitudes toward marriage have unquestionably shifted during the past half century, but those changes encompass everyone.

The 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 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?

You may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which encompass me.

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