Dictionary Definition
encircled adj
1 confined on all sides; "a camp surrounded by
enemies"; "the encircled pioneers" [syn: surrounded]
2 enclosed within a circle; "the encircled camp
was complete cut off"
3 adorned or crowned with a circlet; sometimes
used as combining forms; "a brow encircled with laurel"; "wreathed
in an extraordinary luminescence"; "ringed round with daisies";
"smoke-wreathed" [syn: ringed, wreathed]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
encircled- past of encircle
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
begirt,
belted, cinctured, circled, circumscribed, circumscript, defined, definite, delimited, demarcated, determinate, determined, encinctured, fixed, girdled, girt, hedged about, ringed, set, specific, stated, surrounded, zoned