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ENCOMPASS

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encompass verb tranzitiv

1. a înconjura, a încinge, a împrejmui, a închide; (mil.) a împresura.

2. a cuprinde.

3. (fig.) a înconjura, a asalta; a nu da pace (cuiva);

cares encompassed her grijile nu-i dădeau pace, grijile o asaltau.

4. (fig.) a înşela, a amăgi (prin linguşiri);

5. (înv. fig.) a prinde, a pune stăpânire pe.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I was encompassed by a cloud which no beneficial influence could penetrate.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The Office of Communications encompasses the former Office of Cancer Communications, The Office of Liaison Activities, and the Office of Cancer Information, Communication and Education.

(Office of Communications, NCI Thesaurus)

You may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which encompass me.

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

I feel the dread of this horrible place overpowering me; I am in fear—in awful fear—and there is no escape for me; I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of....

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

The scientists say that if their analysis is correct, it could mean that a large reservoir of methane thought to lie under the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet — which encompasses 25.4 million cubic kilometers (6.1 million cubic miles) of ice — is less likely to be released into the atmosphere.

(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)

Since the completion of this project its mission has expanded to encompass a broad range of studies aimed at understanding the structure and function of the human genome and its role in health and disease.

(National Human Genome Research Institute, NCI Thesaurus)

The wall which encompassed it is two feet and a half high, and at least eleven inches broad, so that a coach and horses may be driven very safely round it; and it is flanked with strong towers at ten feet distance.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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