encompassed
- 1Simple past and past participle of encompass.
The empire encompassed lands stretching from the coast to the mountains.
The study encompassed responses from thousands of participants.
Note
One spelling does two grammatical jobs. As a simple past it carries the clause alone (the survey encompassed every region). As a past participle it needs have or be: had encompassed, was encompassed by. Every meaning of encompass takes a direct object, so the passive comes easily, and it reads especially naturally with the physical sense of encircling: a valley encompassed by mountains.
By then the project had encompassed three separate disciplines.
The old town is encompassed by a ring of medieval walls.
encompassed is a form of encompass
encompass, verb: To include something completely, or to describe it fully and comprehensively. Full entry
- Forms
- encompassencompasses he/she/itencompassing -ing formencompassed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- encompass → encompassed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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