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US
/ɛnˈkəmpəsɪŋ/
]
[ UK /ɛnkˈʌmpəsɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɛnkˈʌmpəsɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
broad in scope or content
an invention with broad applications
granted him wide powers
an all-embracing definition
a panoptic study of Soviet nationality
blanket sanctions against human-rights violators
across-the-board pay increases -
closely encircling
encompassing mountain ranges
the surrounding countryside
How To Use encompassing In A Sentence
- Although the World Cup is all encompassing at the moment, when it comes to sport there is no more spine-tingling moment than when 65,000 fans at Murrayfield sing ‘Flower of Scotland’.
- After all, the Divine is an all-encompassing entity.
- The designer goods are in there, but they must be ferreted out of mass quantities stacked on undifferentiated shelves in an encompassing sprawl.
- Part of all Christian faith is the claim that the church of Christ, in an encompassing sense, is indefectible.
- In between are 11 pages of useful information, including dry facts and quirky anecdotes, encompassing every area of life.
- This is a brilliant book, encompassing themes way beyond the narrow confines of sport. Times, Sunday Times
- The blinkered tendency to derive all-encompassing, universal answers has dumbed down semantic questions, eclipsed interpretative discussion and blinded scholarship to the ways in which context could cook up hermeneutic content.
- The integrated density of a background box was subtracted from that of a box encompassing each sample.
- The bill refers to so-called non-state actors - a term encompassing terrorist groups, people-smugglers and transnational crime. The Australian | News |
- It is huge, encompassing the navy's shipyard, where three 1,200-ton corvettes are being laid down.