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Encompass: Definition, Usage & Key Examples (2 meaning)

Meaning 1：include comprehensively (encompass)

encompass 🔊

/ɪnˈkʌm.pəs/

vt.

To include many different things or ideas.

include comprehensively 🔊

➕

/ɪnˈkluːd ˌkɒmprɪˈhensɪvli/

vt.

To contain, cover, or incorporate a wide variety of elements, aspects, or items within a single entity or scope.

📁 Category：Technological Inventions 🔖 Level：Intermediate

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Root Explanation

From 'en-' (in, into) + 'compass' (to go around, surround). Literally 'to surround or enclose within'.

💡 Mnemonic

Enclosing a compass inside a big box - it's included & surrounded.

📖 Example

The new smartphone's features encompass everything from advanced photography to AI-powered health monitoring. 🔊 The new smartphone's features include comprehensively everything from advanced photography to AI-powered health monitoring.

🔗 Collocations

encompass a wide range of – To include a broad and diverse set of items or ideas.

fully encompass – To completely and thoroughly include or cover something.

designed to encompass – Planned or created with the intention of including various elements.

🔄 Synonyms

include (vt.) – To contain as part of a whole.

contain (vt.) – To have or hold within.

embrace (vt.) – To accept or include something willingly or comprehensively.

🚫 Antonyms

exclude (vt.) – To deliberately leave something out.

omit (vt.) – To fail to include or mention; leave out.

🌱 Derivatives

encompassing (adj.) – All-inclusive; broad in scope.

📖 Cultural Story

Derived from the Old French 'encompasser', meaning 'to surround'. Its ultimate root is Latin 'compassus', from 'com-' (together) and 'passus' (a step). Historically, it shifted from a purely physical sense of surrounding to an abstract sense of inclusion, common in legal and academic contexts to denote comprehensive coverage of topics.

Meaning 2：surround completely (encompass)

encompass 🔊

/ɪnˈkʌm.pəs/

vt.

To surround or form a circle around something.

surround completely 🔊

➕

/səˈraʊnd kəmˈpliːtli/

vt.

To form a circle or boundary around something; to enclose or encircle it physically.

📁 Category：Natural Geography 🔖 Level：Intermediate

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Example

The calm lake is encompassed by tall, green mountains, creating a peaceful view. 🔊 The calm lake is surrounded completely by tall, green mountains, creating a peaceful view.

🔗 Collocations

be encompassed by – To be completely surrounded by something.

encompass with walls – To surround an area by building walls around it.

🔄 Synonyms

surround (vt.) – To be all around something.

encircle (vt.) – To form a circle around.

enclose (vt.) – To close in on all sides.

🚫 Antonyms

center within (phrase) – To be located in the middle of an open space, not surrounded.

stand apart from (phrase) – To be separate and not enclosed by something.

🌱 Derivatives

encompassing (adj.) – Extending all around; surrounding.