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Circled

Circled \Cir"cled\,

  1. Having the form of a circle; round. ``Monthly changes in her circled or

  2. ''
    --Shak.

Circled

Circle \Cir"cle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Circled; p. pr. & vb. n. Circling.] [OE. cerclen, F. cercler, fr. L. circulare to make round. See Circle, n., and cf. Circulate.]

  1. To move around; to revolve around.

    Other planets circle other suns.
    --Pope.

  2. To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle.
    --Prior. Pope.

    Their heads are circled with a short turban.
    --Dampier.

    So he lies, circled with evil.
    --Coleridge.

    To circle in, to confine; to hem in; to keep together; as, to circle bodies in.
    --Sir K. Digby.

Wiktionary
circled

  1. Having the form of a circle; round. v

  2. (en-past of: circle)

Usage examples of "circled".

These were the silent, empty remains of the accelerator ring that had once circled the planet, that had created the antimatter that fueled its economy, that had berthed its ships, warehoused its goods, and supported the lives of eighty million people.

The amphibian shot ahead, then rose into the air like a graceful bird, circled the police launch.

Young Conservative and Young Socialist and Libertarian literature, a group of Anachronists clustered on a lawn around two masked and gauntleted men with their wooden battle-swords, striking at one another while their referee or marshall or whatever they called him circled slowly around the fighters.

Quietly, Asey circled around the barn, glided along the shadow of a thick lilac hedge toward the rear of the house, and finally came to a stop just a few feet away from the back door.

Whilst the Colonel spoke the other man circled the tethered girl, whose blindfolded face moved following the sounds of his footsteps.

Once, Tiffany noticed the Boffo catalogue open on the table with some things circled.

He circled the CARM, then arced off toward the green doughnut that Booce had made his target.

I cruised the bad boogaloo streets until I spotted the car that tried to ram meparked behind a cinderblock dump circled by barbed wire.

I cruised the bad boogaloo streets until I spotted the car that tried to ram me-parked behind a cinderblock dump circled by barbed wire.

Legion General Bill Booly followed the corridor that circled the outer edge of the wheel-shaped space station, he found himself rubbing shoulders with all manner of fellow beings, including brightly feathered Prithians, hulking Hudathans, work-worn androids, exoskeleton-clad Dwellers, cybernetic humans, and more.

Transcendental missionary lurched out of the crowd, her begging terminal extended in both hands, and Booly circled to the left.

Maylo into the backseat, left Booly to fend for himself, and circled the floater to take his position behind the controls.

People nowadays knew that the earth circled the sun, that in the axial tilt they had their seasons confirmed.

Shuddering, I circled the hill to measure the Demesne, keeping the chill upon my right hand, six hundred paces, more or less.

Abdel and Jaheira circled around quickly and were at the other end of the alley before the doppelganger emerged, this time in the form of a burly laborer in mud-stained coveralls.