Synonyms for encompass
ɛnˈkʌm pəsen·com·pass

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1. embrace, encompass, comprehend, coververb

   include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory

   "This group encompasses a wide range of people from different backgrounds"; "this should cover everyone in the group"

   Synonyms:
   wrap up, compass, get over, embrace, hug, insure, plow, espouse, enshroud, dig, compensate, breed, shroud, continue, sweep up, treat, hatch, adopt, report, extend, cut across, brood, squeeze, deal, grasp, incubate, underwrite, overcompensate, address, spread over, hide, get the picture, traverse, apprehend, pass over, bosom, comprehend, handle, perceive, overlay, cover, savvy, cross, cut through, grok, get across, cover up, track

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1. encompassverb

   Synonyms:
   surround, environ, compass, gird, engird, encircle, enclose

2. encompassverb

   Synonyms:
   invest, beset, besiege, hem in, wall in, lay siege to

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1. List of paraphrases for "encompass":

   include, cover, embrace, encompasses, includes, involve, comprise

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1. William Bruce James II:

   I don't think that they can fully encompass the pain and betrayal that I feel, but by holding me so close in their life, they know that their brother was hurt.

2. Bakari Sellers:

   The words don't really encompass everything that we've been through.

3. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   To the extent that it is possible we will encompass Israel's borders with a security fence and barriers that will allow us to control our borders, we will not allow Israel to be flooded with illegal migrants and terrorists.

4. White House:

   Text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok andLisa Pagein 2016 that were obtained by Fox News on Tuesday refer to then-candidate Donald Trump as a ‘loathsome human’ and ‘an idiot.’ More than 10,000 texts between Strzok and Page were being reviewed by the Justice Department after Strzok was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe after it was revealed that some of them contained anti-Trump content. The messages were sent during the 2016 campaign and contain discussions about various candidates. … House Intelligence Committee investigators have long regarded Strzok as a key figure in the chain of events that began when the bureau, in 2016, received the infamous anti-Trump ‘dossier’ and launched a counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling in the election that ultimately came to encompass FISA surveillance of a Trump campaign associate.

5. Matt Eberflus:

   And we want to bring that same style here, to encompass what we’re doing, in terms of hitting, taking the ball away, playing with maximum intensity and being smart about how we do it.