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Encircling

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    enclosing, skirting not-comparable

    "She felt safe in her mother's encircling arms."

Adjective
  1. 1
    being all around the edges; enclosing wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    encirclement

    "If, however, a series of motifs conjoin in their encirclings of a theme - within and beyond the "subtext" - they enliven the interplay among themselves and with the theme to which they are attracted over the turbulent abyss of time and space."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of encircle form-of, gerund, participle, present

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