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
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How to use encompass in a sentence
The Adirondacks encompass a huge park of 6 million acres, as large as the state of Vermont, according to the Adirondack Council, a nonprofit group supporting the park’s ecological health.
Coronaviruses encompass a broad class of bugs which can include everything from some types of the common cold to SARS and MERS.
We don’t know enough about COVID antibodies to count on them | Sy Mukherjee | October 28, 2020 | FortuneCurrently, school board candidates are required to run citywide – rather in their small “sub-districts,” which only encompass smaller portions of the city – in the general election.
Teachers Union Is the Only Big Spender in San Diego Unified School Board Races | Will Huntsberry | October 26, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoInvestment disclosures encompass stocks bought or sold the year prior.
Bry Might Recuse Herself From Future Franchise Fee Decisions | Andrew Keatts and MacKenzie Elmer | October 23, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThe Neural Filters work on Adobe’s Sensei platform, which encompasses its machine learning technology.
Photoshop’s Neural Filters can alter people’s expressions in convincing—and nightmarish—ways | Stan Horaczek | October 22, 2020 | Popular-Science
They encompassed diversity of many kinds, sex-worker rights, and labor rights.
Organic, Fair-Trade Porn: On the Hunt for Ethical Smut | Rachel Kramer Bussel | April 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey had a unified vision of conspiracy that encompassed Jews, blacks, Zionist bankers, greedy plutocrats, and Bolsheviks.
Soviet Communism’s Collapse Left America’s Far Right Without a Real Foe | Lee Siegel | April 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTLast year, the event encompassed around 700 stores in 12 major cities around the globe.
The exceptions carved out by the court “encompassed our entire agenda.”
That critical number—the biggest pool of youngish, single men—encompassed 60% of the weighting.
Encompassed by danger though he knew that they now must be, Peter found himself possessed by one thought and one thought only.
The Double Four | E. Phillips OppenheimThe peasants had encompassed all the footways, though they were mostly of a mind that the Earl had made off to his ships.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri SturlusonThe path practically encompassed ten acres, so that it 178 made quite a respectable stroll.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonFive and thirty winters had been encompassed since his fall, and five and thirty years had he lived in the world.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri SturlusonJericho is a plain encompassed by a mountainous district, which slopes towards it somewhat in the manner of a theatre.
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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