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Answer for the clue "Comprehensively include ", 9 letters:
encompass

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB also ▪ It has also encompassed questions of technique-sharpness of image, exposure values, print quality, etc. ▪ The capital market also encompasses the market for equity securities. ▪ It also encompassed a eugenist ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Encompass , the Enterprise Computing Association , was the original computer user group for business customers of Hewlett-Packard . Encompass's history begins with DECUS , founded in 1961, for customers of the Digital Equipment Corporation , which was acquired ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Encompass \En*com"pass\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Encompassed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Encompassing .] To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To form a circle around; to encircle. 2 (context transitive English) To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain. 3 (context transitive English) To include completely; ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. 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" [syn: embrace , comprehend , cover ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from en- (1) "make, put in" + compass (n.). Related: Encompassed ; encompasses ; encompassing .

Usage examples of encompass.

Somewhere up there in the aeropause, the fountain flattened into a shell of orbits encompassing the whole of He, and it was important to know how high up that shell began.

General Aguinaldo had mobilized his entire division and, with help from the army, a thorough search and surveillance operation encompassing all the territory within a hundred-kilometer radius of Mount Amethyst was mounted.

Her view encompassed the rear of Appleton Hall, extending as far the apple orchard and including the small stone chapel where Dame Cat had made her home.

His large right hand secured the barrels together, his other hand encompassing the trigger areas, an area just before a rectangular metal piece on each weapon.

Cornwell and Whyte rationalize the appearances of magic in their stories, and provide mundane sources for the stories that have become our Arthurian legends, Attanasio places his retelling in a context rife with actual sorcery, living gods, angels, demons, elves, dwarves, and an intricate mytho-cosmology that encompasses the history of creation.

Baidar Gate and through the Baidar Valley leading to Balaclava and the other well-known spots encompassing the ruins of what was once the great naval station of the Russians on the Black Sea.

Kayak Bill, who had once seen a tidal wave on Bering Sea, pictured it advancing in the grey unnatural night from the far reaches of the ocean, growing larger and larger as it neared the shallows off Kon Klayu, and then, tossing its dancing crest to the sky in gigantic abandon, curling down from aloft in green-white, crushing splendor and flinging itself far over the beachline in its endeavor to encompass them all.

Mariut and its mate Edku all but make an island of Alexandria, surrounding it on the south, whereas the sea encompasses the northern shore, and the Canopic Channel of the Nile is to the east.

Postcolonial studies encompasses a wide and varied group of discourses, but we want to focus here on the work of Homi Bhabha because it presents the clearest and best-articulated example of the continuity between postmodernist and postcolonialist discourses.

Instead of contenting himself with a moderate contribution, and a military title, which equalled him only to the generals of Theodosius, Attila would proceed to impose a disgraceful and intolerable yoke on the necks of the prostrate and captive Romans, who would then be encompassed, on all sides, by the empire of the Huns.

His exoself responded to the command, spinning his balls into hyperspheres, rebuilding his retinas as four- dimensional arrays, rewiring his visual cortex, boosting his neural model of the space around him to encompass five dimensions.

Luria, the task of the Kabbalist in his private meditations now encompassed the universe.

The Magnificat was by far his favorite piece of music, rarely sung these days and never formally, because modern women did not have voices that encompassed the phenomenal range.

Instead of maintaining the lofty state of a monarch, distinguished by the splendor of his purple, and encompassed by the golden shields of his guards, Julian solicited, with respectful eagerness, the meanest offices which contributed to the worship of the gods.

It is some three hundred million light-years across, encompassing a volume of approximately one hundred million cubic megaparsecs, and appears to be moving in the general direction of our galaxy.