Definition of Encircle

Encircle

To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.

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Encircle Quotations

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Friedrich Schiller

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.
Dennis Kucinich

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Huey Newton

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Encircle Translations

encircle in French is encercler, ceignez, ceignons, ceins, ceignent
encircle in German is einkreisen
encircle in Italian is circondare
encircle in Spanish is cercar
encircle in Swedish is omringa

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