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# encircling

«encircling» in Mova's school dictionary: **Forming a circle around something; surrounding it on all…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (present participle of encircle: encircle, encircles, encircled, encircling); adjective (the encircling hills)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Forming a circle around something; surrounding it on all sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircling/#m1)

2) Moving around something in a circle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircling/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, encircling hills or walls surround a town; in history, armies encircled a city in a siege; in maths and art, drawing a ring around something; in stories, the encircling dark adds danger; phrases: «the encircling hills», «encircling the city».

### examples

- The encircling mountains protected the valley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircling/#x1)
- The children made a ring, encircling the maypole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircling/#x2)
- Wolves were encircling the camp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircling/#x3)
- A wall encircling the old town kept enemies out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircling/#x4)
- The moat encircling the castle was full of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircling/#x5)
- Clouds were encircling the mountain top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircling/#x6)
- They had bound themselves fast to each other, so that they looked like one large body on the slippery plains of ice encircling the deep abyss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encircling/#x7)

### note

From encircle; drop e before -ing. Similar: surrounding, ringing. Noun: encirclement.

### Trees and pragmatics

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