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# encircle

«encircle» in Mova's school dictionary: **to form a circle round it or surround it on all sides** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (encircle, encircles, encircled, encircling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To encircle something is to form a circle round it or surround it on all sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircle/#m1)

2) To encircle a place in war is to surround it so nobody can get in or out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Geography and maps (mountains encircle a valley), history (armies encircled a city), and descriptions in stories. Phrases: encircled by, encircle with.

### examples

- A ring of trees encircled the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircle/#x1)
- Mountains encircle the little village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircle/#x2)
- The children encircled the teacher to hear the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircle/#x3)
- Draw a line to encircle the correct answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircle/#x4)
- The army encircled the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircle/#x5)
- A wall encircles the old town of York. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircle/#x6)
- Near the grass-covered rampart which encircles Copenhagen lies a great red house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircle/#x7)

### note

Similar: surround, ring. «Circle the answer» is more usual in instructions than «encircle». Not to be mixed up with «encyclopedia».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «encircle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.