Encircle: alternatives and connections

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.

Open English WordNet identifies the related verb as a more specific manner of this action.

A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the ce…

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A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the ce…

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A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the ce…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.