encompasses
- 1Third-person singular simple present of encompass.
The estate encompasses several hundred acres of woodland and pasture.
The curriculum encompasses both classical literature and modern criticism.
Note
A spelling rule is at work here: because encompass already ends in -ss, the third-person ending is -es, which adds a syllable, as in passes and misses. The verb always takes a direct object, since something encompasses an area, a subject or a range. It can mean including something within its scope, as a curriculum does, or literally forming a ring around something, as hills do around a valley.
encompasses 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 → encompasses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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