encompassing
- 1Present participle and gerund of encompass.
The survey is wide-ranging, encompassing every neighborhood in the city.
Encompassing both theory and fieldwork, the course rewards patient students.
Note
A participle that comes with its object attached, since encompass is transitive in every use: encompassing three counties, encompassing the whole debate. It often trails a clause to state how far something reaches. That scope meaning, of including or describing fully, sits beside a physical one, ringing or going around something, as in encompassing the globe by ship. The object usually tells you which is meant.
encompassing 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 → encompassing: add -ing
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