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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | turn, rotate |
| Synonyms: | circle, gyrate, orbit, pirouette, pivot, reel, revolve, roll, spin, swing, swivel, trundle, twirl, whirl |
| Main Entry: | begird |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surround |
| Synonyms: | band, belt, beset, bind, circle, encircle, enclose, encompass, engirdle, envelop, environ, gird, girdle, hem, hem in, ring |
| Main Entry: | circumnavigate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go around |
| Synonyms: | bypass, circle, circumvent, compass, move around, skirt, travel around |
| Notes: | circumnavigate means to proceed completely around while circumvent means to avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing duties, questions, or issues |
| Main Entry: | circumvolve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | revolve |
| Synonyms: | circle, go around, orbit, rotate, spin, turn |
| Main Entry: | engird |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encircle |
| Synonyms: | band, begird, belt, cincture, circle, compass, encompass, engirdle, gird, girdle, ring, surround |
| Main Entry: | engirdle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encircle |
| Synonyms: | band, begird, belt, cincture, circle, compass, encompass, engird, gird, girdle, ring, surround |
| Main Entry: | girt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | encompass |
| Synonyms: | begird, belt, beset, cincture, circle, compass, encircle, enclose, engirdle, envelop, environ, gird, girdle, hem in, ring |
| Main Entry: | mew |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enclose |
| Synonyms: | block off, blockade, bound, box up, cage, circle, circumscribe, close in, confine, coop, corral, cover, encase, encircle, encompass, enfold, enshroud, environ, fence, fence off, hedge, hem in, imbue, immure, implant, impound, imprison, include, induct, insert, intern, jail, limit, lock in, lock up, mure, pen, restrict, set apart, shut in, shut up, veil, wall, wall in, wrap |
| Main Entry: | refract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend |
| Synonyms: | angle, angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook*, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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