compass
noun
an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north.
is compassing
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present progressiveof compass (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The danger must be enormously heightened if one community begins to believe that the other community is compassing deep-laid schemes for the promotion of its own ultimate ascendancy.
From Indian Unrest by Sir Valentine Chirol
It is compassing sea and land in its efforts to overcome, by ingenious financial and technical expedients, obstacles which should never have existed.
From The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney
Pride burned in her like a fire that cruelly illumines night, shining upon the destruction it is compassing.
From A Spirit in Prison by Robert Smythe Hichens
