ENCIRCLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encircled mean? 

• ENCIRCLED (adjective)
  The adjective ENCIRCLED has 1 sense:

1. confined on all sides

  Familiarity information: ENCIRCLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCIRCLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Confined on all sides

Synonyms:

encircled; surrounded

Context example:

the encircled pioneers

Similar:

enclosed (closed in or surrounded or included within)

 Context examples 

When I finished my last letter I stated that we were within seven miles from an enormous line of ruddy cliffs, which encircled, beyond all doubt, the plateau of which Professor Challenger spoke.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this purplish light Wolf Larsen’s face glowed and glowed, and to my excited fancy he appeared encircled by a halo.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small fat-encircled eyes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The man was sitting up, blanched and ghastly, with returning reason in his eyes, and hands which rubbed nervously at the broad red band which still encircled his throat.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A gold-embroidered belt of knighthood encircled his loins, with his arms, five roses gules on a field argent, cunningly worked upon the clasp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the middle of the floor of the empty room was huddled the figure of an enormous man, his clean-shaven, swarthy face grotesquely horrible in its contortion and his head encircled by a ghastly crimson halo of blood, lying in a broad wet circle upon the white woodwork.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He looked and then he smiled, as he could not well help doing, for it was capitally done, the long, lazy figure on the grass, with listless face, half-shut eyes, and one hand holding a cigar, from which came the little wreath of smoke that encircled the dreamer's head.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There can, I think, be no doubt that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the royal Stuarts.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)